The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation.

Donald J. Trump told workers like Ms. Johnson that he would bring back their jobs by clamping down on trade, offshoring and immigration. But economists say the bigger threat to their jobs has been something else: automation.

"Over the long haul, clearly automation’s been much more important — it’s not even close," said Lawrence Katz, an economics professor at Harvard who studies labor and technological change.

Claire Cain Miller @clairecm

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