It would be easy to increase manufacturing employment -- just make it uneconomical, through taxes and regulations, to buy machines that increase productivity. However, that would make us all poorer, and make our exports less competitive.
The focus has to be on increasing national wealth, not on jobs s such. Employment comes as a result of people buying things. To get more people buying, costs have to be reduced through increases in productivity.
Getting more sensible environmental regulations would be a good place to start. After that, start cutting taxes on productive firms.
I’m trying to find where in this article a true net gain of jobs hired was XXXX. All I see is a feel good article from a bunch of corporate blowhards. Cut taxes and regulations and that will leads to unprecedented growth as we saw in the Reagan years. A few thousand here and there and articles about execs “feeling good” and cheerleading doesn’t equate to any jobs
So if total maturating out put is Y, and X represents the manufacturing capacity lost in the last 20 years then the USA could have had X + Y of total manufacturing output. It doesn't matter what you compare Y to, it will always be smaller than X + Y.
Amazes me that normally intelligent people actually believe that nonsense. A country cannot import, retail and market its way to prosperity. It has to create wealth. There are only three ways to create wealth, manufacture it, grow or mine it. It is like a stool, take away one leg and it falls flat.
Be careful; you are making too much sense for some folks here to understand.