Trying to “Bring Back” Manufacturing Jobs Is a Fool’s Errand

Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo

The Trump administration’s trade policy has taken a serious beating during the past few weeks, with good reason. Okay, for many good reasons, some of which we’ll expand on in this post.

But what’s encouraging is that more and more polls suggest Americans understand these trade policies are harmful. And one explanation could be that most Americans recognize that service jobs are good.

In other words, even though the Trump administration...