Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-chief at US News and World Report, suggests that we are losing manufacturing jobs, not because competing economies are stealing them, but because we are not growing the workforce to fill the job openings that we have. STEM, immigration and job training are three areas to focus on to deal with destructive innovation, says Zuckerman.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/07/22/creating-us-jobs-and-skilled-workers-for-the-technology-economy?int=a3fa09

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