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Here's a "grassroots" initiative bringing manufacturing back to the USA from Asia, https://reshorenow.org/ It was started by Harry Moser, the third generation of his family involved in USA manufacturing--primarily the Singer Sewing Machine Company... at one time a huge New Jersey factory of 5 million square feet. His main tool is free-to-use software, the
Total Cost of Ownership Estimator
Most companies make sourcing decisions based solely on price, oftentimes resulting in a 20 to 30 percent miscalculation of actual offshoring costs. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Estimator is a free online tool that helps companies account for all relevant factors — overhead, balance sheet, risks, corporate strategy and other external and internal business considerations — to determine the true total cost of ownership. Using this information, companies can better evaluate sourcing, identify alternatives and even make a case when selling against offshore competitors. See Impact of Using TCO Instead of Price for further explanation.
The message makes sense to this AC, don't worry about national politics, work the cost numbers in detail and let the numbers guide purchasing decisions. He reports that many, many purchasing managers never look beyond the simple price quote--of course that will be cheaper from off-shore. The reality is that when all the relevant factors are included, in many cases it's actually cheaper to buy locally.
For a somewhat independent assessment, the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) summarizes the Reshoring Initiative year-end report from 2024 here, https://www.amtonline.org/article/reshoring-initiative-annual-report-287-000-jobs-announced with a Figure 2 caption, "Reshoring Initiative Library: The cumulative number of jobs brought back since 2010 is nearing two million (Figure 2) - about 40% of what we lost to offshoring."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 26, @02:22PM (4 children)
We have to "reshore" education first
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 26, @02:47PM (2 children)
>We have to "reshore" education first
Define education.
Do you mean job skills training? Yeah, that would help.
What would help more is if there were jobs available for those skills to apply to after graduation.
We're pretty far down the Ouroboros / chicken-egg loop, something needs to straighten out the system and get it feeding from renewable resources.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by krishnoid on Wednesday November 26, @04:10PM (1 child)
My first thought was basic reading [slashdot.org], writing [soylentnews.org], and arithmetic [slashdot.org], but maybe those count more as "skills", rather than "education".
Having jobs available for those skills, though -- isn't that what the new deal [britannica.com] was about almost a century ago?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 26, @05:43PM
> what the new deal [britannica.com] was about almost a century ago?
Yeah, and the richest 0.1% are being prevented from becoming relatively richer compared to the masses as quickly as they wish by concepts in the New Deal that they have been undermining ever since. Basic education became a veiled target ~20 years ago with a "Malicious Compliance" act of "No Child Left Behind" - they dropped the veil a little while ago and are just gunning for all competent education for the masses now.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 26, @06:45PM