https://nypost.com/2019/04/07/trumps-jobs-creating-magic-wand/
Manufacturing has added 480,000 jobs since Trump’s election, and 209,000 jobs in the past 12 months. And that boom is something that both President Barack Obama and top liberal economist-pundit Paul Krugman insisted couldn’t happen.
Literally: In June 2016, Obama slammed Trump’s promises as impossible, saying the then-candidate would need a “magic wand” to deliver. Manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back,” he warned — after six months when they’d fallen by 31,000 under his policies.
A month after Election Day 2016, Paul Krugman wrote of factory work: “Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it.”
Plus two major breaks from recent Democratic and Republican policy.
First: His trade approach has always been aimed at boosting US employment
Second: Trump’s toughness on illegal immigration
As Charles Gasparino noted in Saturday’s Post, this last actually has The New York Times bewailing the rise in construction wages because of a labor shortage. The building trades are notorious for employing the “undocumented”; now they’re feeling a squeeze thanks to Trump.
The Times paints it as “a terrible burden for wealthy construction companies and contractors,” Gasparino notes — when it’s a clear win for the US working class.