Deplorables Rising: Report Shows Trump Kept His Word To Those On Bottom
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Deplorables Rising : During the 2016 campaign, President Trump promised blue-collar and low-wage service sector workers that he would improve their lot. A new labor-market study by a major business group suggests he's kept his word.
The study by the Conference Board, the New York-based global business organization and think tank, found that blue-collar workers aren't just doing better, they're now in short supply.
"Reversing a decades-long trend in the U.S. jobs market, companies are now having a more difficult time finding blue-collar workers than white-collar workers ," the Conferece Board said.
The report added that "growing blue-collar labor shortages will continue in 2019 and beyond."
"In certain instances, companies looking to attract enough blue-collar workers will have to continue increasing wages and, as a result, possibly experience diminished profits," according to Gad Levanon, the report's main author and chief economist at The Conference Board. "But the picture looks very different for the workers themselves. Compared to a few years ago, blue-collar workers are now much more likely to have a job they are satisfied with and experience rapid wage growth."
Blue-Collar Renaissance
Whew! Just a few years ago, blue-collar meant no future. Americans relentlessly pushed their kids to go to college, even if it meant six figures in education debt. Parents and students thought the wages and prestige of a white collar job far outweighed that of any work done with your hands. They stigmatized blue-collar labor as low class.
That may be ending, part due to demographics. The report notes that "the Baby Boom generation, a segment of the workforce that once held many blue-collar jobs, continues to retire in droves." Meanwhile, "since the mid-1990s millions of non-college graduates have left the labor force due to disability."
How will companies respond? They will increasingly have to automate, lower education requirements for some jobs, or even move some of their facilities to areas where lots of potential workers live.
These are great times for blue-collar workers, as a recent piece at the Breitbart.com site notes. You know, these are the ones that a certain presidential candidate referred to as "deplorables."
They also helped put Trump over the top.
While demographics helps boos, so does stiffer border enforcement: "While hiring undocumented workers has always been illegal, recent changes in enforcement may have reduced the number of available undocumented immigrant workers."
Fewer workers, higher wages, better living standards for those with blue-collar skills.
Winning With Trumponomics
Trumponomics has been a big winner for those once-deemed deplorables, people who mostly labor with their hands, augmented by their brains, but who went through hard times in recent decades.
As we noted in November, "Since Trump gained office, 4.4 million new jobs have been created. A big slice of that came from manufacturing. We were assured by any number of experts in recent years that manufacturing was "dead." But in October some 32,000 new manufacturing jobs were created, for a total of 446,000 since Trump took office."
That isn't all. Average hourly wages are now rising at 3.1%, the fastest since 1999. African-American, Asian, and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or near all-time lows. Household incomes are rising, buoyed by 2%-plus productivity gains.
These are not mirages. They're real. Yes, the stock market is topsy-turvy. That's in part due to trade concerns, but also due to the Fed's raising of rates.
A Real Recovery
But the recovery on the ground for average workers, especially those in transportation, manufacturing and even low-end health care jobs, is ongoing and real.
Many presidents have promised to help, but few have done so as successfully as Trump. In the coming months, with a new Democratic Congress, you can expect non-stop subpoenas, screaming about impeachment, and investigations.
Trump's critics on the left and the right will be mute about his economic success. But millions who now have good, well-paying jobs and stable lives will know: He kept his word.
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He kept his word.
at what price ? And who didn't exspect a bump up with all the hype of the great businessman taking over ? then trump and his people got there huge tax break, which is just short term for the middle class.
I've yet to see much I consider as actually making America any greater. We're still spending money we dont have and not much else has been resolved or fixed that I know of. As far as deregulations I think we have a while to see what that impact has on everything in years to come. The mexican wall has become a fence we pay for and the world now revolves around this mans daily tweets. how stable is that ? LOL
I also still dont see trump's "The Best of The Best" it seems the other way around actually.
He kept his word.....lol
So ?
I guess if all A greater America means to someone is a slightly bigger paycheck for awhile...
Yeah he did good. ..lol
" But millions who now have good, well-paying jobs and stable lives will know: He kept his word."
Just after Obama took office the unemployment hit it's peak at 10.2% (African American unemployment hit 16%)
Overall unemployment when Obama left office: 4.7% (African American unemployment down to 8.2%)
A drop of 5.5% under Obama (7.8% drop in African American unemployment)
Current unemployment rate: 3.9% (African American unemployment at 7.5%)
A drop of 0.8% under Trump. (0.7% drop in African American unemployment)
We added 2.58 million jobs in 2014 , 2.87 million jobs in 2015 and 2.45 million jobs in 2016 but only 2.36 million in 2017 and 2.37 million in 2018, both lower than the last three years of Obama's presidency.
I really can't comprehend how anyone is giving Donald Trump any credit, he's a fraud and his accomplishments are nothing but taking over for someone else and slapping his name on it like he does everything, his only skill is branding.
So, what type of jobs did Obama's economy produce? "Do you want fries with that"; and low end/paying service industry jobs are considered good when a Democrat produces them- but when a Republican does, hold onto your hats for the backlash.
Also, as you so blithely pointed out- Obama took over during a severe recession- of course his drop #'s are going to be higher. They had no where to go but down. The fact they are still decreasing under Trump at the rate they are is news.
Maybe you want to choke on this information which was reported repeatedly. Obama oversaw the slowest recovery from recession ever, period.
I can't stand Trump; but please stop giving credit to Obama where none is due.
The numbers speak for themselves and no, the nearly 8 million jobs added in the last 3 years of Obamas terms obviously weren't all burger flipping jobs. The one getting undeserved credit is Donald Trump stepping in after the cake was baked and adding some icing to the top and claiming he's the master baker.
Never happen Tessylo
Well, when faced with the facts of more jobs under Obama their low functioning bigoted brains can only conclude they must have been bad jobs under Obama, but good jobs under Trump, regardless of the facts. They're brains aren't wired to accept any positive information in the same sentence as the name "Obama" since it's already full of prejudiced visuals and words like "uppity" "Kenya" "black panthers" "reverse racism" "Obummer" and "Obama Bin Ladin". They can't get the ads, memes and anti-Obama rhetoric they've been fed by Russian media for the last several years out of their heads because it preached directly to their once secret sense of superiority and their deep seated long ingrained prejudice and xenophobia. It's why they immediately clung to the ridiculous lie that Obama wasn't born in the US, it was the music that their racist ears wanted to hear because it meant they could openly oppose him on the technicality that they didn't believe him legitimate instead of just having to openly oppose him for being black.
Such a complete bullshit comment doesn't even warrant a response other than to say the facts completely dispute your nearly comical false statement. If you had facts to support your statement you'd have listed them as I did and point to the ACTUAL number of jobs and financial growth and drop in unemployment as I did, but you don't so all you can do is rhetorically disagree.
Gawd, what a load of complete crap.
Meantime, the market is in freefall, falling as much as the Great Recession last week. And continuing today. And the Trumpublican shutdown is costing MILLIONS every day on top of normal spending. Why is Mexico not paying for the damn wall again? And why are you all fine with that?
Trump and gop so damn incompetent this is the THIRD TRUMP SHUTDOWN IN A 2018!
You are so full of it, trump has only enriched the rich and fucked the rest of us with his bogus tax cut, the markets are in a tail spin, i've already lost over $12,000 in my 401k since the end of September, I have not checked my deceased husband's 401k for what i've lost there. Trump is a fucking disaster and he's taking America down with him. Time to take the blinders off.
Prove it
'Deplorables rising?' Probably. Trumpism is creating a 'bigger bottom, bigly.'
Right wing is corrupt.
The headline really should have read:
Deplorables Rising: Report Shows Trump Kept His Word To Those Up His Bottom