Factories and Figures

“President Trump has been upending the global economy in the name of bringing manufacturing back. President Joe Biden signed into law massive investments aimed at doing something similar. The American manufacturing sector is reviving after decades of decay. But there’s something a bit weird undercutting this movement to reshore factory jobs: American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the jobs they already have.” NPR: Why aren’t Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? (And if we need more people to fill manufacturing jobs, is there some method by which we could get people who live in other countries to move here and take them?)