US manufacturing employment will not return to its earlier peak levels despite promises to bring the jobs back (inferred window: about ten years, to mid-2026).
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“some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back”
- Said on
- 1 June 2016 · PBS NewsHour town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, responding to Donald Trump's pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back
- Source
- Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special · PBS NewsHour
- Should come true
- by 2026
- How sure they sounded
- are just not going to
- Categories
- EconomyPolitics
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Manufacturing jobs are a central question for the US economy and politics.
Outcome
Accurate
Inferred window about ten years. US manufacturing employment rose only modestly from about 12.3 million in 2016 to under 13 million and remains far below its 2000 level of over 17 million, so many of the lost jobs did not return.
History
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