"During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump consistently promised to revive America’s manufacturing economy.
Trump’s focus on manufacturing brought out high-profile critics who scoffed at the notion.
President Obama notably said in June 2016 that manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.”
He said this at a time when manufacturing job growth had flatlined, falling by 31,000 from January of 2016 to when he delivered his pessimistic comments in June of that year.
...But comparing the nation’s most-recent economic recovery from the trough in June 2009, the pace of job growth was slower in Obama’s tenure than in any past recovery—except for the rebound from the mild eight-month recession in 2001, following the deflation of the dot-com bubble..."
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