The White House promised a manufacturing renaissance. Instead, the factory floor keeps shrinking. For young men willing to ditch the hard-hat fantasy, the real money is in so-called pink-collar work—and the pay is better than anything on the shop floor.
President Donald Trump built a political movement on the promise of restoring blue-collar America: steel mills humming, assembly lines roaring, working-class men back on the job. The data says something very different is happening.
