Manufacturing jobs did grow, by about half a million, during Trump’s first two years in office. But job numbers are still about a third lower than they were in 1980 and lower than they were in 2008.
President Donald Trump has centered much of his 2020 reelection campaign on his ability to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, but recent data shows that the president might fall short of his claims.
Employment growth for the sector in February grew by only 4,000 jobs—the weakest in more than a year. Payroll company ADP reported that the economy lost 2,000 net factory jobs in March. The majority of those jobs were lost within the first year of Obama's administration when the economy was in recession and the auto industry was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, had been particularly hard-hit by manufacturing promises not kept. In exchange for the factory, the state promised $2.85 billion in tax credits and $150 million in sales-tax exemptions. Mount Pleasant and Racine County also provided an incentive package around $764 million. In addition, Wisconsin said it would spend $134 million to fix the roads around the factory.
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