... Last summer, Apple contractors reportedly hired 100,000 workers to ramp up production of the iPhone 6s in advance of its fall release.
Nothing comparable could ever happen in the U.S., no matter what the president wants. A mass mobilization on that scale, and at that speed, likely hasn't been attempted since World War II. And there's little reason to think it would be successful or desirable today, even if Apple was willing to try.
Finding enough skilled labor wouldn't be much easier. Apple CEO Tim Cook told "60 Minutes" last year that, thanks to better vocational education, China now has a more skillful workforce than the U.S. Apple's executives estimate that they'd need 8,700 industrial engineers to oversee 200,000 assembly line workers, yet only 7,000 students completed university-level industrial-engineering programs in the U.S. in 2014. Shenzhen, by contrast, is home to 240,000 Foxconn employees -- and millions of additional engineers and laborers.
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