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"Reviving the blue-collar boom that Americans experienced during the first Trump term has been a day one priority for the administration," the White House told Newsweek, while citing improvements to real wages and manufacturing output in 2025.

The latest Labor Department data puts the issue of employment into sharp relief. September's delayed jobs report showed an encouraging uptick in overall hiring but no pause in blue-collar employment's long-term decline.

Of the five industry groups or "supersectors" that could be broadly considered "blue collar"—manufacturing, mining and logging, transportation and warehousing, utilities, and construction—only the latter saw an increase in September. Construction's 19,000-job gain was also insufficient to offset the monthly loss of 25,300 jobs in transportation or manufacturing shedding a further 6,000.

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

As expected by anyone paying attention.

[–] adubya@feddit.online 13 points 4 months ago

The very industries they are cheer-leading and pointing to as they start to gut Higher-education

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The only things growing under Trump are the national debt and resistance to Trump. Americans have elected a corrupt incompetent bigot. They are (very slowly) starting to realize the severity of their error.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Oh well. Welcome to the consequences of your idiot actions there voters.

You could have had new jobs with the IRA but nope, you decided that racism and a guy who loved couches would lower egg prices by magic.

Good luck there guys, you're going to need it along with a whole boat load of social services that are no longer around thanks again to your vote.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As opposed to the rest of the job market?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, but Trump very specifically claimed he would get production back to USA.
Which evidently he hasn't, but not only that, his policies have been harmful for production in USA.

North of the border however in Canada, things are going great despite sanctions from USA, and they have a 3.3% growth in industrial production, and 2.2% growth in their economy.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 months ago

How much of that is coming from the LLM busy box?

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

So?

-Trump and Republicans

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

America is so great!

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago