Discussion: Keeping jobs in the U.S.

In the exam question, you're asked to discuss what should be done to keep jobs in the USA. Here we give you a couple of points, you may want to include in your discussion on this topic.

As Bruce Kennedy states in his article, the “global sourcing and production networks” “are starting to realign” (Kennedy, ll. 35-36), so it is imperative that the Government should take specific measures in order to deal with the situation.

Education plays an important role in the future of manufacturing in America. Beckman says:

President Obama has identified education as a key to America’s future competitiveness. A failure on the part of U.S. policy makers to reform education could cause the manufacturing sector to fizzle, just when this long-maligned sector ...