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US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story

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Re: US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story

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remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.

> 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?

Re: US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story

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post #4

remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.

They want a poor and desperate workforce that they can more easily exploit.

No it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.

Re: US manufacturing employment is down, but each state has its own story

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post #4

remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does. trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.

> 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?

Here - 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.