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US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story
- smnrchrds 2mo agoSt Louis Fed is really angling for that Beigie award.
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- dzonga 2mo agoremember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.
- frogperson 2mo agoThey want a poor and desperate workforce that they can more easily exploit.
- estearum 2mo agoNo it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.
- WalterGR 2mo ago> remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. That doesn’t sound right. Where are you getting the numbers? Are you going by NAICS codes?
- dzonga 2mo agoHere - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP for Number of Manufacturing jobs down to 12 million. a Few years ago it was going up before trump came in again. remember tech sector roughly employs 2 million people thereabouts.
- warumdarum 2mo agoWhy always that positive spin?