U.S. Employment Comparison 2017: Restaurant Jobs vs Manufacturing Jobs

U.S. Employment Comparison 2017: Restaurant Jobs vs Manufacturing Jobs

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The shift to restaurant jobs vs manufacturing jobs represents a new American economy, one that may ultimately weaken the middle-class.

President Donald Trump ran his campaign on a promise to “Make American Great Again.” Embedded in that catchphrase was the veneration of an old America, one where the country made things. Trump extolled the virtues of American manufacturing and well-paid blue-collar jobs that allowed people with less education to rise up to the middle-class all the same.But the reality is that manufacturing is struggling to claw its way back to the prominent role it once filled in the American economy. […]

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