Not the way that the free trade agreements were negotiated in the 1990s. But now that the free trade genie is out of the bottle, it isn't going back inside. There is "stuff" that we can do in the US that the Chinese can't do. But it's impossible to do those things if a worker can't communicate properly in English and can't understand math.
The skills bring people the jobs. There is no future in low skill minimum wage jobs either at $7.25 or $15. Raising it to $15 will just bring closer the moment that your smartphone will be asking you, "Would you like some fries with that", rather than a human being.
The shanty towns are already here, called "cities".
I’m not worried about my self or my family. We are high skilled, educated people who are going to make it.
What do you suggest we do with the bottom 50%. They can’t live on $1.65/hr.
We either find productive work for them or support them. I strongly prefer that we find productive work for them to do.