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COMMENTARY
May Marks Another Weak Month for Blue Collar Jobs
by Matt Sedlar
Jobs in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 8,000 jobs in May. The story here is the continuing weakness in manufacturing and mining ...
Non-Investing Manufacturers Threaten Tax Law Repeal Would Mean Even Less Investment
by Matt Sedlar
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently declared that any attempt to repeal Trump’s 2017 tax reform law would “strike a major blow to manufacturing ...
Little to No Growth in Mining and Logging and Manufacturing as Slump Continues into April
by Matt Sedlar
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 34,000 jobs in April, which sounds positive until you separate the data by sector. Growth ...
Manufacturing Job Growth Stalls For Second Month in a Row
by Matt Sedlar
Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging increased by 12,000 jobs in March. This is a bump up from a gloomy February but nowhere ...