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Old 07-06-2018, 10:25 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Pete F. View Post
If the goal of Trump’s trade war is to move more jobs back to the USA, given that we are close to full employment, how does that gain us anything? Where will more workers come from? What’s the plan?
Isn't one of the complaints being bandied about lately been that unemployment numbers look good but the jobs are low wage jobs?

Wouldn't the jobs coming back to the US be more in the vain of skilled labor/Manufacturing jobs.

And if there are more jobs than people to fill them, wouldn't that cause employers to pay more to secure labor for those jobs, thus raising the average wages being paid.

Wasn't that another complaint that everybody was harping on as well.
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