Mixed Winds Buffeting Manufacturing
October 4, 2016
10/3/16 – In an examination of jobs losses in the United States, a New York Times article says that 13% can be explained by changing trade practices, with the rest being casualties of automation or tweaks to factory operations that have enabled more production with less labor. In Issues, a leading scholar who examines innovation policy has offered a deeper look at the loss of manufacturing jobs and laid out policy options for reversing this trend that is damaging the nation’s economy, democracy, and social ideals.