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No, that is not ALL WE NEED!
Even at $15 an hour, you can't employ people at jobs that the Chinese will do at one tenth that cost!
We must take our people to "up-market jobs" in terms of generalized expertise, and for that THERE IN NO ESCAPING POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLING.
Meaning either vocational at the high-school level or post-secondary diploma-bearing levels. Which means this: The US must make a national investment in post-secondary education JUST AS IT DID FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY.
So, let's stop the wastage of far too much DoD-funding* when the world is generally at peace. And invest those funds in enhancing qualifications of our working citizens by continuing onto a higher educational level FREE, GRATIS & FOR NOTHING. Regardless of age!
*Total DoD F-35 funding over ten years: $345B. For $34.5B per year we can send 2000 students onto Tertiary Level programs costing the average $12K a year at state-schools in America.
A simple cost of living adjustment and an upward pressure on wages, is what we want to achieve.