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[E7]

Per CNN: (CNN)As the backbone of American manufacturing, the steel industry is essential to the world's water and food supply, energy generation and national security. The U.S. military uses steel extensively, ranging from aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines to missiles, armor plate for tanks and every major military aircraft in production. There are a lot of reasons to take pride in American steel.
But today, our steel industry is being hurt by an unprecedented surge in unfairly traded imports, with record amounts of foreign-produced steel flooding into the United States. Cheap, subsidized foreign imports are taking steel jobs away.

If you want to read the whole thing:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/opinions ... index.html

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And the impact on those communities, up and down those rivers, socially, economically, even ethically and morally, certainly evidencing an uptick in crime(s), whereas previous to the demise of the mills, just about every soul made a living via something (pizza shops; working-men's clothing stores; furniture, etc.) to do with the mills directly or indirectly, in a situation that seemed absolutely permanent (NObody EVER imagined the mills would be gone - trust me in that assertion) is profound and lethal. Churches CLOSED, with ethnic populations leaving or simply dying-out - see Holy Trinity R.C. Church, of Duquesne, PA. Schools closed. One can't even visit cemeteries without the fear of being mugged and/or car-jacked, as a new fact-of-life. Once vibrant, bustling "downtown" shopping areas have become near-wastelands of emptiness and crime.

That names just a very few changes.

[E7]

They are having some issues still with higher tech and engineering expertise.

The educational system in China might be an interesting read. One would think they would have a mechanism to produce their "own" minds by this stage of the game.

My knowledge of that subject is slightly less than zilch!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They are having some issues still with higher tech and engineering expertise.

The educational system in China might be an interesting read. One would think they would have a mechanism to produce their "own" minds by this stage of the game.

They used to come here and stay, but that changed long ago and now they go home to make better money than we can pay them. But I still see their universities recruiting western faculty to teach. I also see a fair amount of their scientific research publications and they are still playing catch up except at the higher level institutions.

We OTOH are treading water........and slowing sliding backwards.

[Roy]

They are having some issues still with higher tech and engineering expertise.

The educational system in China might be an interesting read. One would think they would have a mechanism to produce their "own" minds by this stage of the game.

My knowledge of that subject is slightly less than zilch!

I've heard the Chinese have special communities for their engineering graduates who can't find work.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Aside from the medical profession, where does a college graduate go for a job in contemporary American life?

[Roy]

Aside from the medical profession, where does a college graduate go for a job in contemporary American life?

McDonalds?

[rogruth]

Murph,
A little different but try to tell others that don't know how to pronounce that Pittsbugh area river that begins with a Y.
We won't worry about the correct spelling because that is not taught anymore so can't be expected.

[robert.]

Aside from the medical profession, where does a college graduate go for a job in contemporary American life?

DUBAI

[rogruth]

Murph,
Why were those buildings you show above torn down?
Probably to make a place for something that would pay (more) taxes. ???

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
A little different but try to tell others that don't know how to pronounce that Pittsbugh area river that begins with a Y.
We won't worry about the correct spelling because that is not taught anymore so can't be expected.

Youghiogheny River

[rogruth]

Aside from the medical profession, where does a college graduate go for a job in contemporary American life?

DUBAI

Is Dubai a part of American life? I could be wrong but I think the question was about in this country.

[rogruth]

Murph,
A little different but try to tell others that don't know how to pronounce that Pittsbugh area river that begins with a Y.
We won't worry about the correct spelling because that is not taught anymore so can't be expected.

Youghiogheny River

Yes, that one.
Now spell it phonetically so it can be pronounced correctly.
You bees the teach, I bees the teachee.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
Why were those buildings you show above torn down?
Probably to make a place for something that would pay (more) taxes. ???

Holy Trinity R.C. Church is still on the way down. It attended to an Eastern European ethnicity which settled in the immediate neighborhood to work in the nearby (walking distance) steel mill (Duquesne U.S.Steel Works.)

The Carnegie Free Library was replaced by housing for the financially-challenged, I believe.

Some schools closed due to ethnic and religious emigrations out of the communities, with people fleeing from oppressive conditions, and low birth rates, I would imagine, all resulting in a paucity of attendees for the schools and families willing to pay or be able to pay tuitions. One particular high school closed because the students were so disrespectful, unruly, and violent toward the teachers that it closed its doors.

Regarding tax revenues, I have no idea, nor any imagining, where municipalities are getting any of that. The population seems, in general, to be more on the recipient end of that equation than on the paying-in side of that situation.

[Roy]

Aside from the medical profession, where does a college graduate go for a job in contemporary American life?

DUBAI

Is Dubai a part of American life? I could be wrong but I think the question was about in this country.

Depends on what your degree is in. My father hired on with Texaco, and was sent to Colombia.