From NY Times
''Nearly six million factory jobs, almost a third of the entire
manufacturing industry, have disappeared since 2000. And while many of
these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more
vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of
10, or in some cases, 100 workers. Those jobs are not coming back, but
many believe that the industry’s future (and, to some extent, the future
of the American economy) lies in training a new generation for highly
skilled manufacturing jobs — the ones that require people who know how
to run the computer that runs the machine.''
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