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✅   Building the Builders: A Workforce Development Strategy for the AI Economy

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Zeal for reinvigorating manufacturing, coupled with fears that AI can leave workers behind, are generating a rare moment of political and policy unity where such a new workforce development strategy and an American apprenticeship renaissance could finally gain traction. Silicon Valley’s history offers important lessons for the industrial future U.S. policymakers are looking to realize. The innovators working on advanced technologies and the workers with good secure jobs in manufacturing were once neighbors. It may not be an obvious or well-known fact nowadays, but Silicon Valley has always had firm industrial roots. From Palo Alto to Mountain View, a thriving middle class emerged as young returning GIs formed the manufacturing workforce at leading local firms...

American Affairs     May 20, 2025