A welding and sheet metal apprentice receiving instruction at the Milwaukee Public Schools apprenticeship training program on Jan. 19, 2024. Mike De Sisti / The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK

President Donald Trump has done what the old bipartisan consensus never dared: put trade and industrial policy squarely on the side of “Made in America.”

Tariffs are back, steering investment into domestic production.

Automakers, pharmaceutical firms and semiconductor giants are announcing new plants on American soil .

After three decades of offshoring, the signal from Washington is clear: Bring manufacturing home .

But there’s one thing no tariff or tax incentive can conjure out of thin air — a workforce.

Over the last few decades, the United States didn’t just lose facto

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