Obama Oversells U.S. Economy
It’s true that U.S. manufacturing employment has rebounded by 7.3 percent since plunging to a post-World War II low in February 2010. But the fact is that manufacturing employment, at nearly 12.3 million in May, was still 2.2 percent below where it was when Obama took office. Plus, it remains 10.6 percent below where it was at the start of the Great Recession in December 2007.
The manufacturing sector’s growth hasn’t been “sustained” lately, either. Manufacturing employment was down by 35,000 through the first five months of 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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