“I’m going to bring jobs back to the United States like no one else can.”
These words, spoken by President-elect Donald Trump during his campaign, were music to the ears of many of the working-class voters outside the nation’s trendy metro economies. These workers and their communities have suffered mightily from the decline of good jobs, especially in manufacturing, that only required a high-school education.
President-elect Trump attributed the massive losses in these jobs to trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. But the reality is that 88 percent of the manufacturing jobs were lost because we’ve gotten better at using machines to manufacture goods like cars, home appliances, and computers.
[For more of this story, written by Anthony P. Carnevale, go to http://www.citylab.com/work/20...ew-good-jobs/509180/]
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