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Where Will the Jobs Come From?

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

So there have been voices, for example Alan Tonelson, arguing for a resurgence of manufacturing as the only credible exit route from recession. This will certainly not provide any short-term impact but easily raises controversy. Now, for example, when the nation desperately needs jobs, unions are opposing free trade agreements which would increase manufacturing at some locations, but stress it at others. The challenge is exacerbated by demographic projections which show an expanding retired population depending on a shrinking work force.

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