Daniel Ackerman
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first heard Mar 2026
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Manufacturing employment has been hit pretty hard in recent decades.
Globalization has led to outsourcing, there's increased automation, and the Great Recession.
Jason Miller is at Michigan State University.
And while there was some employment growth in the 2010s, manufacturing has seen consistent job losses since 2023.
Miller says there are a few reasons why.
He says a good chunk of domestic manufacturing supports housing.
Think sawmills or furniture makers.
So a slow housing market can be a drag on those factories.
Another cause of the recent manufacturing decline?
Tariffs.
Teresa Fort of Dartmouth College says even though they might be aimed at boosting U.S.
manufacturers, they've ended up raising input costs for many.
More expensive and just impossible to predict, with some tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court one day, popping up under a different statute another day.
As a result, those manufacturers aren't doing much hiring, says Susan Spence of the Institute for Supply Management, which surveys factory managers.
Spence says until manufacturers start getting those larger orders again, they won't have much reason to staff up.
I'm Daniel Ackerman for Marketplace.
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