Politicians and President Donald Trump sell the vision of a manufacturing renaissance, but the Washington Post Editorial Board argues their vision of “massive factories employing thousands of people” are not possible in real-life America. The problem, according the Post, is that the new jobs “are relatively few in number,” however high in compensation. Ninety-eight percent of U.S. manufacturing firms employ fewer than 500 people, and 93 percent employ fewer than 100, according to 2022 data.”The “manufacturing” jobs actually employ more robots than anything, per the Post's editorial. “They can applaud the success of places like Bridgeport while conceding that manufacturing isn’t a jobs juggernaut. Even if they did, they would yield worse, lower-paying jobs than the high-tech manufacturing plants of today.”Read the Post's editorial at this link.
