Unemployment Up In Midwest Despite Trump Promises

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine



TRUMP EMPLOYMENT GAINS ARE NOT HELPING HIS RUST BELT BASE

BY NICOLE GOODKIND ON 12/18/17 AT 1:00 PM

President Donald Trump says America’s dropping unemployment rate is one of his greatest accomplishments—but Rust Belt states so crucial to Trump’s White House win last year have been largely left out of the employment boom.

Unemployment is up in Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio since May, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, even as the national unemployment rate is at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent. A rise in unemployment rates can sometimes be a result of more people entering the labor force, but that's not the case in any of the Rust Belt states where joblessness is on the rise.

Factories nationwide have added 171,000 jobs so far in 2017, but most of the benefits are in the South, where labor unions are weakest. The largest gains in manufacturing jobs between 2010 and 2016 were in South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.

On the campaign trail last year then-candidate Trump chastised his rival as a "bad candidate who didn't go to Wisconsin or Michigan like they should have," but as president, Trump has so far been unable to make good on his promise to revitalize the deindustrializing Midwest by bringing back meaningful factory jobs.


Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jobs-midwest-rust-belt-unemployment-751475

[Achilleaze]

1. republican lies to Americans are dangerous

Republicans need to get a grip on their incessant ungodly lying.

[FakeNoose]

15. Do you think they'll ever figure it out?

I don't!

[Quixote1818]

2. So much winning!

[progree]

3. "trick-down economics"??? Hahahaha. Wonder if that was intentional

from the OP's link: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jobs-midwest-rust-belt-unemployment-751475

research shows that over the past 30 years, trick-down economics have have barely budged worker’s wages.

The "have have" is there too.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Upper Midwest Job loses this year

appears to be in and around the Auto Sector. Detroit big three have idled Assembly Plants to adjust Inventories. The downstream effects are having a real negative effect on Employment numbers. Most of those States effected have Unemployment insurance guide lines to protect these folks for up to 26 weeks.

Remember,Carrier has dumped their Line Workers for Mexican Workers,and their Suppliers will lose workers proportionally. Railroad related suppliers are getting just smashed.

[paleotn]

5. No sympathy.

Reap the whirlwind.

[Historic NY]

6. Trump lied to them, so you know what they have to live with their vote.

https://aflcio.org/2016/10/12/six-facts-donald-trumps-use-chinese-steel

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwjY6-_M4pTYAhWFNd8KHVSFBQcQFggpMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fhow-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717&usg=AOvVaw2L9k6EBBAjqzWCk33dQMGU

[IronLionZion]

7. Tax cuts for the wealthy will trickle it down all over them

Just like all those other times they did this throughout recent history

[FakeNoose]

16. We have to stop using that term "trickle down"

... because there's no such thing.

[progree]

8. Bureau of Labor Statistics pages on the states:

https://www.bls.gov/lau/

Ohio (5.1%): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST390000000000003
Michigan (4.5%): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST260000000000003
Indiana (3.9%): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST180000000000003
Wisconsin (3.4%): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST550000000000003

National (4.1%): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
` was 4.3% in May

[NickB79]

9. Minnesota voted blue. Our unemployment rate is 2.3%

And we were just ranked the best-run state in the US.

Fuck those red state Trump voters.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. True that!!!!

I reside in Rochester, home of the world famous Mayo Clinic, who has surpassed IBM as the major employer for much of Southern Minnesota. Without the economic base that has spurned economic growth in this area, Rochester would be just another small prairie town with no industry or commerce of any kind; as with the communities surrounding Rochester.

I have traveled all over this country and prefer Minnesota because of the higher quality of life here due to how it taxes. States with high unemployment, low taxes, often have a lower quality of life because Infrastructure, Education, Job Creation, etc., are underfunded. Think KANSAS!!!!

Yeah, it is cold in the winter months. But that is minor compared to how the rest of the country is going.

[StevieM]

10. Actually, she went to Michigan many times. And Trump cancelled an event in Wisconsin a few days

before the election.

[murielm99]

11. Thank you.

[Still Blue in PDX]

13. It must be Obama's fault. nt

[sofa king]

14. It's because of those promises, not despite them.

[Blue_Tires]

17. "UNEMPLOYMENT UP IN MIDWEST BECAUSE OF TRUMP PROMISES"

FIFY