Work Wanted: Manufacturing jobs harder to find

They say that the factory of the future will have just two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to make sure the man doesn’t touch anything.

Although that factory is still far in the future, the manufacturing sector has shed a third of its total employment in the past 30 years. Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to renegotiate trade deals and “bring back” jobs. In Erie, Pa., in August 2016, he declared “I promise we can fix it so fast. We will […]

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