July 26, 2017
At a speech in Youngstown Ohio last night, Donald Trump talked about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state and told his audience:
“They’re all coming back. They’re all coming back. They’re coming back. Don’t move. Don’t sell your house.”
Actually, they were coming back (at least some of them) before President Trump took office, but the state is again losing manufacturing jobs.
Manufacturing Employment in Ohio
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Employment in manufacturing in Ohio had increased by 4,700 in the year from January 2016 to January 2017. In the five months since January 2017, it has fallen by 5,400. If this rate of job loss continues, Ohio will lose almost 70,000 jobs manufacturing jobs, more than 10 percent of employment in the sector, over a two-term Trump administration.
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