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First Month Under Trump: U.S. Government Jobs Shrinking, Manufacturing Jobs Growing

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to bring back jobs to America&period; So far&comma; he is keeping this promise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">In his first month in office&comma; the U&period;S&period; has gained 5&comma;000 jobs in manufacturing&comma; but has lost 10&comma;000 in the government&comma; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics &lpar;BLS&period;&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">There were 9&comma;950&comma;000 government jobs in December&comma; which dropped to 9&comma;935&comma;000 in January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">In Obama&rsquo&semi;s last year&comma; the U&period;S&period; government added 162&comma;000 positions and lost 46&comma;000 manufacturing jobs&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">But again&ndash&semi; Trump&rsquo&semi;s administration is focused on boosting the manufacturing industry and has already started to decrease the massive disparity between government and manufacturing jobs&period; From December of last year to January of 2017&comma; manufacturing jobs increased from 12&comma;336&comma;000 to 12&comma;341&comma;000&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Obama was more focused on wasting taxpayer dollars to hire more staff&period; When he left office&comma; the number of government jobs was just about at the all-time high&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;The number of manufacturing jobs in the United States peaked at 19&comma;533&comma;000 in June 1979&period; Since then&comma; it has declined by 7&comma;192&comma;000 to the 12&comma;341&comma;000 as of this January&comma; according to the BLS numbers&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">CNSNews&period;com&period;<&sol;em> &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The current discrepancy between the number of government jobs and the number of manufacturing jobs is appalling&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Let&rsquo&semi;s face it&comma; private industry jobs have much more of a positive impact on our GNP than government jobs&comma; because they are actually productive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Not to mention&comma; government jobs are funded by taxes and government spending has been out of control during Obama&rsquo&semi;s presidency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Trump recognized this and has made it his mission to create a more productive economy&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Before stepping into the oval office&comma; Trump started to negotiate with large companies about creating jobs in the U&period;S&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;With all of the jobs I am bringing back into the U&period;S&period; &lpar;even before taking office&rpar;&comma; with all of the new auto plants coming back into our country and with the massive cost reductions I have negotiated on military purchases and more&comma; I believe the people are seeing &lsquo&semi;big stuff&comma;&rsquo&semi;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump in January&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">This was after General Motor&rsquo&semi;s announced that the company would be investing &dollar;1 billion into manufacturing in the U&period;S&period;&comma; creating 1&comma;500 American-based jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Just two weeks before&comma; Trump called out GM for sending its Chevy Cruzes manufacturing in Mexico to American dealers&comma; without paying taxes&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U&period;S&period; car dealers-tax free across border&period; Make in U&period;S&period;A&period; or pay big border tax&excl;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Evidently&comma; GM was persuaded to focus more on their American market&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Trump then called out Ford&comma; which the inspired the company to announce a change of plans from building a &dollar;1&period;6 billion plant in Mexico to now investing in a &dollar;700 million Michigan factory&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;The president-elect has used his Twitter account to seemingly enforce his &ldquo&semi;America first&rdquo&semi; policy&comma; celebrating companies like Ford and Fiat Chrysler for their U&period;S&period; investments but slamming Toyota for its plans to build Corollas in Mexico&comma; for example&comma; and blasting the costs of Lockheed Martin&rsquo&semi;s F-35 and Boeing&rsquo&semi;s 747 Air Force One&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">Politico&period;<&sol;em> &ldquo&semi;He has also taken credit for a deal with air-conditioning manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs in Indiana and SoftBank&rsquo&semi;s previously announced &dollar;50 billion investment&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Obviously&comma; Trump is making it clear that he supports cutting government costs&comma; while encouraging companies to keep labor in the U&period;S&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Trump has only been in office a couple of weeks&comma; so his policy implementation has not yet had much effect&period; These changes are just due to the &&num;8220&semi;Trump effect&&num;8221&semi; i&period;e&period; people are anticipating what Trump will do and they are behaving accordingly&period; This means people have faith that the President will do what he says he will do&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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