Carrier gets 7 Million for sending 1300 jobs to Mexico. (Stats about Manufacturing jobs during Obama's Presidency) Interesting

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moving to Mexico, as part of his deal with the Carrier Corporation.

As part of the deal, he had to promise them over $7 million in state benefits – as part of an overall package that also cuts corporate taxes over time. Even with that, 1,300 jobs will still be going to Mexico, when you factor in the closing of their other factory in Huntington, Indiana – a little fact that Trump surprisingly forgot to mention.

With that said – things like this need to be put into context. So – what is the state of current manufacturing jobs in Indiana? They’ve increased since President Obama has been in office.

In 2010, there were 435,000 manufacturing jobs in the state. The latest numbers from this year show 518,000 – a 19% increase. Even though they are still down overall since 2000, that was under the previous Republican administration – not Obama.

Trump likes to blame President Obama’s policies are being one of the chief failures for getting bad deals with China – but it’s just not true.

But – what about the rest of the country, and not just Indiana? Well – here, too, manufacturing jobs are up since President Obama came into office – even though they are still down overall.

In 2010, there were 11,460,000 manufacturing jobs and in 2016 there were 12,338,000 – an increase of 8%.

This isn’t even the whole story – another fact Trump doesn’t mention is that output is up. Indiana is producing more even though it doesn’t have as many factory jobs as it did two decades ago. Why is that? It’s not trade – and it’s not the outsourcing of jobs – it’s technology. Companies are increasingly automating their functions requiring less workers. That’s a trend we are seeing a seeing across the entire country and it’s the reality of the situation.