Trump and Sanders' common cause

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-trade-221506

But the picture is not as grim as Sanders and Trump make it seem. There are still many manufacturing openings — 13,000 across Wisconsin — for workers with slightly higher levels of technical skill or who are willing to learn how to operate newly automated factories and move short distances for new openings.

“It’s probably right that all these blue-collar, labor intensive jobs just aren’t coming back. The labor costs are too high and there’s too much automation now,” said Mike Lisle, Dane’s chief operating officer. “But we have openings for people starting at $13 or $14 per hour if they are willing to take some training and have the right kind of attitude and work ethic.”

This scenario is playing itself out all over the nation, which, contrary to popular political myth, has had something of a manufacturing renaissance over the last seven years, adding around a million new factory jobs since employment in the sector bottomed out at about 11.5 million in 2010. Employment in the sector peaked at 19.7 million in 1979 and now sits at 12.3 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And the trend is to bring factories back, not ship more production to China. According to Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, the balance of jobs leaving and entering the U.S. has essentially evened out over the last two years, with most of the incoming jobs coming back from China, where employment costs are rising. “The outsourcing problem isn’t getting dramatically worse,” Moser said.

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