The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds -CBS

[CentralMass]

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"Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry.

Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, while payrolls in the sector have shrunk by 42,000 since April, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) that draws on government labor data.

The nonpartisan policy institute attributes that decline to the Trump administration's steep new tariffs; hardline stance on immigration; and the Republican-backed "big, beautiful bill," a tax and spending package enacted by Mr. Trump in July that CAP says hurts renewable energy companies by phasing out certain tax credits.

For all of 2025, manufacturing employment in the U.S. has sunk by a total of 33,000 jobs, according to Labor Department figures. Most of those job losses have been among companies that make durable goods, such as cars, household appliances and electronics. The drop comes as hiring overall has slowed sharply in recent months, with employers adding only 22,000 jobs in August, well below forecasts.

The number of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. has declined for the past six decades, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In 1960, manufacturing represented about 34% of total employment, while the number of jobs in the sector peaked in 1970 at 19.5 million. As of August this year, 12.7 million Americans were employed in manufacturing, while the industry lost 87,000 jobs in 2024, data shows. "

[Bayard]

1. Jobs have declined the past 6 months,

About the same amount of time trump has occupied the White House.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Who benefits and how by Trump destroying US manufacturing?

[Lovie777]

5. Duh....

[exboyfil]

6. I know in our industry it has been highly disruptive

And it doesn't help that there is no consistency. 15% one day, 50% the next day, etc. It makes planning difficult.

My company has benefitted because we have some vertical integration our competitors do not. I need this job for another six years, and I pray every day that we don't screw the economy to the point that I was in last year (60 year old engineer "retired" by his employer).

[Jacson6]

7. I think companies are just waiting for the lame duck President to leave office.

I'm sure foreign countries are doing the same. Plus there is a court ruling saying the tariffs are illegal.

We will see what comes out in the wash in the next few months.

[progressoid]

8. It's been declining since the 1950s.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2019/12/is-the-decline-in-manufacturing-economically-normal/?utm_source=series_page&utm_medium=related_content&utm_term=related_resources&utm_campaign=fredblog

[CentralMass]

9. IMO we are seeing a major setback on how employees are being treated.

[progressoid]

10. The irony that so many people voted for Trump and the GOP's bullshit populism.

Meanwhile they gave billionaires tax cuts and the working class pay the price.

This is going to take a long time to fix.