Rumors of the death of U.S. manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated.
Everyone from Sen. Bernie Sanders to Tucker Carlson laments the supposed demise of U.S. manufacturing. "Manufacturing ... all but disappeared over the course of a generation," said Carlson as a premise of his viral monologue recently on his Fox News program.
Not so. In fact, manufacturing is booming in the United States. The latest Labor Department jobs numbers show that 32,000 manufacturing jobs were created in December -- the biggest monthly increase in 2018. Over the entire year, 284,000 new manufacturing jobs were created, the most since 1997. And over the last two years, nearly half a million have been created.
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