Tackett reports that from January 2017 to December 2018, the United States lost 9 percent of its manufacturing jobs. Citing analysis by the Brookings Institution, Tackett takes a look at counties in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — all of which are Obama-Trump states, meaning they were won by President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 but rejected Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In Wisconsin, Tackett reports, ten counties that Trump won in 2016 have since lost manufacturing jobs. The news isn’t much better in Pennsylvania, which in 2018, lost manufacturing jobs in eight counties that Trump carried, according to Tackett.
View the complete June 24 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.