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Back in April, Donald Trump touted his aggressive tariff policy as a catalyst for the reshoring of manufacturing jobs. Eight months later, reshoring progress is nowhere to be seen.

The jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week found that while nonfarm payrolls increased by 119,000, there were 6,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, adding to the tally of 59,000 lost factory jobs since Trump’s April vows to ignite domestic manufacturing. The Labor Bureau’s data is consistent with the Institute for Supply Management November report, which indicated an eighth consecutive month of contracting manufacturing jobs.

“The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic…as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out,” economic commentator Joseph Politano noted in a LinkedIn post last week.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you want to “re-shore” American jobs it will take hundreds of billions of dollars in direct investment for various industries, and well as ongoing subsidization for education and training…Basically what China has done for 50 years.

Just slapping tariffs on stuff we do not make and cannot make here doesn’t do shit, and I don’t believe that anyone including Donald Trump ever thought it would. The point is to break the fledgling populism that has developed in the people, to eliminate the education that gave us the idea that we could ever rise against our oppressors, and to put us, ALL of us in a state of permanent poverty and desperation while they roll out their “network states” and retire the constitution.

[–] howl2@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

You could argue we finally started making some of those investments in 2022. Over the long run they likely would have increased us manufacturing in key future industries …. But that was all passed been it wasn’t trumps term, so it all had to go