Is that even possible? If so, it is an eye opener for what is happening in the American economy and what is causing the MAGA movement.

Let’s follow the evidence.

According to this article https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5375146/trump-tariffs-factory-jobs-nostalgia?

there are 12.7 million manufacturing jobs in America, down from an all-time high of 19.6 million in 1979.

According to this data base,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/437763/employment-level-in-canada-by-industry/

there are 1.8 million manufacturing jobs in Canada. Applying the standard 1-to-10 ratio (population ratio) that means scaled up proportionate to population Canada would have the equivalent of 18 million manufacturing jobs, just short of America’s all time high of almost 50 years ago, let alone the current US job rate.

That caught me completely off guard. Puts a whole new perspective on what Trump is saying about the dire state of the US. Even compared to Canada, the US is in the pits.

Here is another data bomb. One quarter of those US manufacturing jobs are held by immigrants. Not sure WHAT to make of that one.

America does have a problem regarding manufacturing jobs. But tariffs certainly are NOT the solution. If Canada can out-perform the US per capita without the trade barriers of tariffs, exactly what does that say about the condition America is in?

  • Norgoroth@lemmy.world
    29·
    1 day ago

    President Diapershart wants to bring back the low paying manufacturing jobs that noone wants this time without the benefit of any labor protections for US workers

    • Daryl@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      17 hours ago

      The referenced article does address the issue that American manufacturing wages are declining into the slave labor category. The decline of unionization has a lot to do with it. On the other hand, Chinese manufacturing wages are going up, moving the employees into the middle income group.