To really help U.S. workers, we should invest in robots

America's manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and Silicon Valley executives, among many others, know it's already happening. And a new report from PwC estimates that 38% of American jobs are at "high risk" of being replaced by technology within the next 15 years. But how soon automation will replace workers isn't the real problem. The real threat to American jobs will come if China does it first.