The Data Behind Biden-Trump Factory-Job Pitches
An employee works on a steel fabricated product at the Marlin Steel Wire Products factory in Baltimore.
Photographer: Andrew Magnum/BloombergI’m Shawn Donnan, a senior writer for economics in Washington. Today we’re looking at fact-checking political assertions on manufacturing jobs. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net or get in touch on X via @economics. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.
In any US election year, jobs matter. But this year in particular some jobs matter more than others. Which is why, when US nonfarm payrolls data are released today, lots of people in Washington will be quickly peering beyond the headline figures and at manufacturing employment.