Triple G wrote:
I believe he is incorrect about jobs. MAGA screamed about manufacturing jobs. Those jobs are growing and still they complain. Whether they're going to i*****l i*******ts is not something I can show and neither can he. I have faith in the I-9 process is done properly. I do know that legal immigration is needed to fill the need. The boat manufacturers, gun manufacturers, EV battery manufacturing, and chip manufacturing are going crazy here. If you are not working, it's your own damned fault.
https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-tennessee-labor-market?state=tnhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMPI believe he is incorrect about jobs. MAGA scream... (
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Manufacturing is up? Not according to this 2023 report.
"Labor productivity for manufacturing decreased by
1.0 % between the second quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2023, as illustrated
in Figure 4.9. The five-year compound annual growth is -0.6 %. For U.S. manufacturing,
total factor productivity increased 3.6 % from 2020 to 2021 and has a 5-year compound
annual growth rate of 0.7 %, as illustrated in Figure 4.10. Productivity in the U.S. is
relatively high compared to other countries. As illustrated in Figure 4.11, the U.S. is
ranked ninth in output per hour among 142 countries using data from the Conference
Board. In recent years, productivity growth has been negative or has come to a plateau in
many countries and the U.S. seems to be following this pattern of slow growth. There are
competing explanations for why productivity has slowed, such as an aging population,
ine******y, or other factors. A number of the explanations equate to low levels of capital
investment. It is also important to note that productivity is difficult to measure and even
more difficult to compare across countries. Moreover, the evidence does not seem to
support any particular explanation over another as to why productivity appears to have
stalled."
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ams/NIST.AMS.600-13-upd1.pdf