#manufacturing-employment

#manufacturing-employment

At a White House reception last weekend, a little over 10 months later, the US president appeared to acknowledge just how far his timeline had shifted. We're going to have I say it's the golden age of America, Trump told his audience. We have an age that's coming up, the likes of which this country has never seen. And I just look so forward to the results. You're going to see results in six months to a year.

US President Donald Trump's tariff policies, imposing levies as high as 50% on the United States' trading partners, have not proven compatible with his campaign promise to turn the US back into a "manufacturing powerhouse," as Friday's jobs report showed. The overall analysis was grim, with the economy adding just 22,000 jobs last month, but manufacturing employment in particular has declined since Trump made his April 2 "Liberation Day" announcement of tariffs on countries including Canada and Mexico.