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To Really Help U.S. Workers, We Should Invest in Robots

Automation competition from China needs to be met head-on

Robots are getting cheaper, and more people are programming them.
Nikolaus Correll
Mon, 04/24/2017 - 12:01
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America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and Silicon Valley executives, among others, know this is true. A new report from PwC estimates that 38 percent of U.S. jobs are at “high risk” of being replaced by technology within the next 15 years. The Conversation

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