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by rgbrenner 2870 days ago
Manufacturing jobs are booming in the US. The very people that you're implying are hopeless, that specific demographic, have access to blue collar jobs in a way they haven't in nearly a generation.

It hasn't been a generation since the 2008 recession.. and there are still over 1 million fewer manufacturing jobs today than in 2008.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

Since the low point, the industry has only added about 1 million jobs.. so they're only about 50% recovered by this stat.