WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump vows to bring back the millions of American jobs lost to China and other foreign competitors if voters put him in the White House.
Economists say he wouldn't stand a chance: Trump's boundless self-confidence is no match for the global economic forces that took those jobs away.
Since the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy has lost 5 million manufacturing jobs - and nearly half of them to China.
Companies shifted low-skill jobs to China in the 2000s because American workers couldn't compete with Chinese workers earning around $1 an hour.
But today there's an even bigger problem: Technology has taken many of those jobs for good. Today's high-tech factories employ a fraction of the workers they used to.
