Should have, but consumer demand for lower prices made it hard to do, at best. Parasound, and the other companies run by Richard Schramm, always used Taiwan for the manufacturing base but being in the sights of the CCP, that too will come to an end.
With the number of Americans who don't want to stay in school, I don't have high hopes for a lot of careers and positions in manufacturing. The local (suburb) school board wants a $77.4 Million dollar referendum to pass, so the high school can be renovated & modernized and many comments form people who are debating it come from their feelings but some (including me) are looking at the Reading & Math proficiency as a reason to block some of what is included. They do want to expand & improve the Robotics and STEM programs and I fully support that but the average scores aren't great and I think the school needs to present a more realistic view of the world to the students, especially since Milwaukee still has so many good engineering schools and high tech companies that are expanding here.
One of the Milwaukee Public High Schools shows 6% and 9% proficiency for Math & English, respectively, with 73% graduation rate. That tells me that most of their students can't read well or do the required Math and that's a huge problem- this is a school for 'gifted and talented' students. I suspect the cashier at a sandwich shop attended that school- when I paid for the sandwich, the change due was 40 cents and she couldn't figure out how to do that with the coins in the register.
