Yes, really. Here are the receipts.
After April 2025 tariffs billed as a "manufacturing rebirth," factory jobs fell for 8 straight months, dropping about 72,000 nationwide and 2,500 in Michigan. Critics say the policy raised costs, slowed production, and failed to deliver job growth.
Both of your card's numbers live here: 72,000 factory jobs lost between April's tariffs and December, 2,500 of them in Michigan alone. Why the analysis concludes tariffs can't fix what actually changed...
In every single month after "Liberation Day," federal data shows manufacturers cut jobs — eight straight and counting. The Wall Street Journal's verdict on the promised rebirth...
The BLS numbers show a third consecutive year of net manufacturing job losses, with the administration's own tariff policy increasingly implicated. What factory managers told the December ISM survey...