Labor Secretary says government job losses ‘dragged down’ September jobs report
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So, if you were to break down the jobs report, a number one, there was 46,000 new private sector jobs. It was dragged down by the loss of some government jobs, which also was a big part of this administration, right-sizing the the the government and making sure that those jobs are going to high-paid, high-skilled private sector jobs. But, let's look at manufacturing. Today is actually National Manufacturing Day. So, let's talk about the manufacturing numbers. Uh this is a very big key for this administration to reindustrialize American manufacturing and bringing those jobs home. And that's exactly what we're seeing uh across the board and in this job report. So, this month, 9,000 new manufacturing jobs, bringing it to 72,000 new manufacturing jobs uh for the year. Uh the manufacturing index has increased every month for the last 9 months, reversing years of decline. And uh if you look at the last 2 months of the prior administration, they lost the last 2 years of the prior administration, they lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs. So, we're starting to see these investments paying off. As you know and you report on often, there's trillions of dollars of investments coming in all across the world.


