Finance and economics.
American manufacturing.
Leave those fantasies behind.
Factory work is overrated.
Here are the jobs of the future.
Trumpian types are unanimous.
America needs factories.
The president describes how workers have watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs Foreign cheetahs have ransacked our factories and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.
Peter Navarro, his trade advisor, says that tariffs will fill up all of the half-empty factories.
Howard Lutnik, the Commerce Secretary, offers the most cartoonish pitch of all.
the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones,
that kind of thing is going to come to America.
For years politicians and some economists have linked manufacturing's long decline to stagnant wages,
hollowed out towns and even the opioid crisis.
In the 2000s alone, America shed nearly six million factory jobs.
Such work often offered high school leavers a route to a stable, quietly prosperous life.
It sustained entire cities, earning Pittsburgh the moniker,
Steel City, and Akron that of rubber capital of the world.
Little surprise then that politicians across the spectrum want the jobs back.
Indeed, President Joe Biden shared the same dream as his successor,