It rebuts the idea that a lack of skilled U.S. workers is an impediment to manufacturing growth.
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The Promise of Biden’s Second Term
Today on TAP: And the exemplary effects of his green jobs creation programs in his first term
Posted inEconomic Policy
Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle
The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Biden Get Chip Markets Right?
A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A More Actively Managed Decline?
Our staff writer reviews 2023 and her work.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Global Capitalists or National Champions?
As long as production is domestic, does it matter whether a company creating jobs for U.S. workers is American, German, or Japanese?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Has Penetrated the GAO
How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency
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Will Biden Have Enough Chips in 2024?
Today on TAP: His industrial-policy programs are great. How much of an election year difference can they make?
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Econ Commentators Join TSMC to Declare U.S. Workers’ Premature Defeat
The econ blogosphere hasn’t really checked, but knows in its heart American workers aren’t up to the job.
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TSMC Phoenix Cuts Electrician Pay and Sends In Taiwanese Workers
After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.