Paul Solman:
Manufacturing has been touted as the next big thing in jobs by both parties, all of America one big maker space, as in the past, when factory workers made up something like a third of the labor force. That number is now down to less than 10 percent.
But there are some 19 million working-age men out of the work force entirely, not having even looked for a job in the past 12 months. A manufacturing revival, it’s argued, will lure many of them back to work, men without a college degree promised higher paying jobs just waiting to be filled.
