Naturally, the MSM emphasized a net/net job loss from the July report. What they did NOT tell you was that the loss resulted from a large decrease in "public employees" (schools, plus Fed/State/Local). They also did NOT tell you about the increase in private, non-agricultural, jobs.
They certainly did not tell you about the increases in "Durable Goods" manufacturing employment, because that would have confirmed that Trump's tariffs had the desired effect.
How good is the plan and its effects?
...Durable goods manufacturing added 18,000 jobs in July, its best month of the year. Over the three months through July, durable goods payrolls rose 44,000. Motor vehicles and parts accounted for 7,900 of the July gain. Machinery added 2,600, fabricated metals 2,500, and computers and electronics 2,900, including 1,700 semiconductor jobs.
During the first four months of the year, durable goods added 28,000 jobs, an average of 7,000 a month. May, June, and July produced 44,000 jobs, an average of nearly 15,000. The pace of hiring has more than doubled.
Durable goods payrolls have now risen in every month of 2026, adding 72,000 jobs and averaging better than 10,000 a month....
But there's more!!
...Production workers in durable goods logged 42.3 hours a week in July, up from 41.3 a year ago. Overtime rose to 4.1 hours from 3.7. Manufacturers are adding workers and working the ones they already have longer.
And this is paying off for manufacturing workers. Average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees in durable goods rose 4.7 percent over the year, against 3.2 percent for all private workers. Add the longer week and weekly earnings for those workers climbed 7.2 percent, beating the rate of inflation by 3.7 percent....
And there are many, many more jobs available in the private sector, especially in the trades. You won't see that in the MSM, either.
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