Manufacturing Jobs Perk Up a Bit

We all know that Obama failed to keep his quickly-forgotten promise to generate 1 million new manufacturing jobs within 4 years. Thought I’d keep tracking them, though, just to see how manufacturing is doing. Here’s the latest chart:

 

Two things to note: first, the BLS did a major revision to their numbers, so this chart reflects their latest values. It ended up adding 20K-30K jobs in most months, so Obama’s manufacturing job performance looked a wee bit better.

The second point is that manufacturing jobs stopped their decline in November and started rising. Wonder what happened in November? Hmmmm….

Anyway, if this trend could continue it’d be great news for manufacturing, employment, and the fundamentals of the American economy.

Here’s hoping.