need lots of help...if we don't make make direct investments (plus a review/reset on regulations), we'll just have to pay for it when they hit the welfare lines.
As for the manufacturing sector, it's hard to imagine any kind of substantial rebound here in the USA...however, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that 'pre-COVID' our employment figures were pretty good...sign of a shift from "smokestacks" to "keyboards", perhaps?...makes me think of a new discussion thread..."Will the Post-COVID work environment help or hinder job growth?"...need to factor in 'work-from-home' effects, reduction in office construction/furnishing, etc.
Referencing the linked Vox article again, which btw refers to a National Review article...do you perceive that our current economic system is - and should continue to be - a fundamentally Capitalist system...with a "dash' of Socialism to take care of impacts on middle and lower class citizens? Again, I'm influenced by the fact that the Democratic Party has never added a plank to its platform that calls for anything like "pure" Socialism...just TLC for those suffering "collateral damage".