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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.
by dzonga 3mo ago
remember manufacturing in the U.S employs 10X more people than tech does.
trump tariffs are the reason the numbers are going dow.
- frogperson 3mo agoThey want a poor and desperate workforce that they can more easily exploit.
- estearum 3mo agoNo it's even worse: they (the admin) are just actual stupid people.
- WalterGR 3mo 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 3mo 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.