In January, U.S. Gained 5,000 Manufacturing Jobs & Lost 10,000 Government Jobs

ARRA News Service Editor:  Manufacturing jobs creat tangible things for society and provide taxes for all levels of government.  Excessive and needless government jobs are  sucking the life out of the economy and adding to bith State and the National debt.   Government is too big, too expensive and is failing to do the very functions they were created for including protecting us from potential enemies be they foreign military forces, barbarians seeking to take what is not theirs,  or hords of invaders seeking to change our culture and the American dream.  It is past time for both the Federal Government and State Governments to drastically cut invasive programs and significant numbers of government employees so as to both reduce burdensome costs and regulations on its legal citizens and American businesses.  The 2016 January jobs update follows.
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by Terence P. Jeffrey: The United States gained 5,000 jobs in manufacturing in January while losing 10,000 in government, according to numbers released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, jobs in government in the United States outnumbered jobs in manufacturing by 9,950,000. In January, the margin dropped to 9,935,000.

Over the past year—from January 2016 to January 2017—the United States added 162,000 government jobs, while losing 46,000 manufacturing jobs, according to BLS numbers.

In the one month from December 2016 to January 2017, manufacturing jobs rose from 12,336,000 to 12,341,000—for an increase of 5,000.

At the same time, government jobs dropped from 22,286,000 to 22,276,000—a decline of 10,000.

However, over the past year--from January 2016 to January 2017--the number of people employed in government in the United States climbed from 22,114,000 to 22,276,000—an increase of 162,000.

During the same January-to-January time period, the number of people employed in manufacturing dropped from 12,387,000 to 12,341,000—a decline of 46,000.

The number of manufacturing jobs in the United States peaked at 19,533,000 in June 1979. Since then, it has declined by 7,192,000 to the 12,341,000 as of this January, according to the BLS numbers.
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Terence P. Jeffrey is editor-in-chief of the conservative CNSNews.com. Previously, he served for more than a decade as editor of Human Events where he is now an editor at large.

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