The job cuts at Whirlpool come as the company has continued to support the Trump administration's trade policies and claimed they will help bolster US manufacturing. Trump's trade policies appear to have done little for US manufacturing so far. The US has lost 83,000 factory jobs since Trump took office in January 2025...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/whirlpools-job-cuts-trumps-tariffs
Harry Moser, the founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, argues that America should invest much more heavily in apprenticeships to build the manufacturing workforce of the future. Apprenticeships provide young people with pathways to learn vocational skills without having to obtain an expensive, four-year college degree. Moser says American leaders have overemphasized college to the detriment of vocational training, and that our system of apprenticeships pales in comparison to the ones in countries like Germany and Switzerland.
According to Third Way, a centrist think tank, in 2022 only 0.3% of the American working-age population was in apprenticeship programs. For comparison, in Switzerland, that number was 3.6%, or 12 times higher...
