{"id":199689,"date":"2026-03-26T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/deindustrialization-fuels-u-s-joblessness-the-seattle-medium\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:20:14","slug":"deindustrialization-fuels-u-s-joblessness-the-seattle-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/deindustrialization-fuels-u-s-joblessness-the-seattle-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Deindustrialization Fuels U.S. Joblessness &#8211; The Seattle Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/deindustrialization-impact-american-towns\/\">Deindustrialization Fuels U.S. Joblessness &#8211; The Seattle Medium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/deindustrialization-impact-american-towns\/\">https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/deindustrialization-impact-american-towns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 10:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"seattlemedium.com\">seattlemedium.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ben Jealous describes the impact of factory closures on American towns, indicating that the resulting joblessness and social issues are prevalent across the nation.<br \/>\n&#8211; He highlights how deindustrialization affects communities, leading to economic decline, loss of hope, and increased drug-related and violent crimes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Jealous points to the role of NAFTA and other factors like automation and corporate consolidation in contributing to the loss of manufacturing plants and associated jobs.<br \/>\n&#8211; He argues that focusing on corporate profits over the common good has left many communities in the United States suffering.<br \/>\n&#8211; Jealous calls for a renewed industrial plan to train people for future jobs and to rethink the implications of automation on work in general.<br \/>\n&#8211; He emphasizes that nations are built on collective belief and suggests that Americans must choose to support and invest in their future if they are to overcome these pressing issues.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deindustrialization Fuels U.S. Joblessness &#8211; The Seattle Medium https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/deindustrialization-impact-american-towns\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-26 10:20:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ben-jealous-pfaw-copy.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199691,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199689\/revisions\/199691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}