general Fortune 7 months ago

Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs - Fortune

Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs - Fortune

"It is striking how soft manufacturing has been because in theory, you put tariffs in place to protect domestic manufacturing," one economist said.

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Trump's tariff fiasco is the epitome of capitalist folly - ill-conceived policies that hammer the working class while pretending to protect it. Instead of bolstering manufacturing jobs, they've slashed them, leaving workers in the lurch and exposing the farce of "economic growth" under a system that prioritizes profit over people. It's high time we ditch this rigged game and fight for a system where factories are owned by those who sweat in them, not by fat cats who gamble with workers' lives.

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