Noah Smith, Columnist

Trump Can Do a Lot More to Help Manufacturing

Spending on infrastructure and education is better than tariffs and trade wars.

April 29, 2019 at 12:30 PM UTC

Noah Smith is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, and he blogs at Noahpinion.

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Why should the U.S. government try to help the manufacturing? Although factory work used to offer a pay premium, this has disappeared in recent years:

Manufacturing workers also tend to work long, grueling hours.