Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports that Trump lost nearly 1,800 factories. He adds,
- "On the day Trump was inaugurated, 20 January 2017, GM cut 2,000 jobs at its Lordstown plant in Ohio. The next year General Motors announced it would shut down its Lordstown plant for good as part of a plan to cut another 14,000 jobs in the US. The news came even as GM received a tax windfall of $157m in the first three months of 2018 due to Trump's tax cuts, which Trump and the company had praised as a job creator."
Kalena Thomhave writes about Michigan,
- "In 2019, the number of manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania fell by 0.5 percent, according to a report by Michael Shields, researcher at Policy Matters Ohio and Andrew Stettner, senior fellow at the Century Foundation. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, 381,000 additional manufacturing workers in these states were laid off or furloughed. Two auto plants in Michigan have closed since 2017, with a third on its way out (the Romeo engine plant where Krzysiak got his start). "Trump doesn't give a rat's ass about manufacturing workers," says Krzysiak. "He got elected and [spent] the last four years undercutting workers' abilities to organize, make a decent wage, and [maintain their] job security."
Trump's 2017 tax break for corporations and the wealthy has encouraged them to move further offshore, taking jobs overseas.
In Pennsylvania, Trump has lost 600,000 jobs.
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The Guardian: "How Donald Trump's broken promises failed Ohio | Anywhere but Washington"
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