Tag: Mining
Growth in Blue Collar Jobs Continues in March
by Alan Barber , 04/07/2017
As noted in this month’s CEPR Jobs Byte, the national unemployment rate ticked down to 4.5 percent in March. Overall job growth was just 98,000 for the month. Coupled with downward revision in the last two months, the three-month job growth average was 178,000.
February Blue Collar Job Growth is Strong in All Three Sectors
by Dean Baker and Nick Buffie , 03/28/2017
February was the third consecutive month for growth in manufacturing jobs, bringing the change over the last year to 7,000.
The Blue Collar Jobs Tracker: Mapping Progress on Jobs
by Dean Baker , 03/21/2017
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to bring back the good paying jobs in manufacturing and mining that had been lost in the last three decades. He promised that an “America First” trade policy, lower taxes, and reduced regulation would bring these jobs back. Clearly these promises were important to many of the […]