Friday, August 30, 2024

Harris Misleadingly Claims Biden Added 800,000 Manufacturing Jobs

Claim: Vice President Kamala Harris said that she and President Biden have created 800,000 manufacturing jobs.

“We created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs.

Recent government figures show that manufacturing employment is shrinking, and the manufacturing sector has been contracting.

U.S. manufacturers increased their payrolls by around 742,000 workers between January 2021 when Biden took office and October 2022 but most of those were not “new” manufacturing jobs as Harris claimed.

What’s more, only 20,000 jobs have been added since October 2022, indicating a year and a half of stagnant manufacturing job growth.

This shows that only 170,000 new manufacturing jobs have been added under Biden-Harris, an average monthly gain of just around 4,000.

If anyone was seeing a manufacturing job boom early on in the Biden administration, that has long since fizzled out. 

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/08/29/harris-800000-jobs-again/

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