reaching a peak of 19.6 million jobs in 1979, and today just under 13 million people are employed in the industry, according to data from the BLS.” (Source: Doan, Laura. “Harris claims Trump lost manufacturing jobs. Is that true? Here's a fact check.,” CBS News, 21 October 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/manufacturing-jobs-trump-harris-fact-check/ ) The difficulty of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States is there aren’t enough jobs. And why is this? More than China, productivity is the cause. “As manufacturing employment declined, manufacturing production rose by 13 percent, driven by a 38 percent increase in labor productivity.” (Source: Editorial Board. “Trump wants to take back manufacturing jobs. It won’t work.”, The Washington Post, 14 October 2024.) This will be the case moving forward. One study predicted “manufacturing jobs worldwide will fall to 311 million in 2050, from 377 million in 2018.” (Source: Ibid; citing Brian Webster, Charles Kenny, and Ranil Dissanayake. “Is Manufacturing Destiny?”, Center for Global Development, October 2023. Retrieved from: https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/manufacturing-destiny-dynamics-future-sectoral-shares-and-development.pdf ) Yes, this fall will happen not only in China and Mexico, where stats indicate the range will be between 17.8 percent to 9.9 percent of total jobs.19 America will remain fairly constant, but that is only because robots started replacing people a long time ago in the rich world. (Source: Ibid.)
The same is true of the oil and gas claims. Gordon Kaufman, a petroleum industry expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been quoted as saying, “The change in administrations will have minimal to nil effect on short term or intermediate term prices [of oil and gasoline] Oil is an internationally fungible commodity that is subject to the behaviors of multiple actors.” (Source: Robertson, Lori. “The Issues: Trump’s Proposal to Lower Prices by Increasing Energy Production,” FactCheck.org, 28 October 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.factcheck.org/2024/10/the-issues-trumps-proposal-to-lower-prices-by-increasing-energy-production/)
12 Ian Dexter Palmer. “Fracking In Pennsylvania—The Truth Behind The Politics,” Forbes, 27 October 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianpalmer/2024/10/27/fracking-in-pennsylvania-the-truth-behind-the-politics/
13 Leonhardt, David. “The largest immigration surge in U.S. history,” The New York Times, “The Morning,” 11 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/the-largest-immigration-surge-in-us-history.html
14 Ibid
15 Sanders, Linley. “How 5 key demographic groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast,” AP, 7 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latinos-black-voters-0f3fbda3362f3dcfe41aa6b858f22d12
16 Alvarez, Priscilla. “Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says,” CNN Politics, 19 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/biden-deportations-report/index.html
17 Sanders, Linley. “How 5 key demographic groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast,” AP, 7 November 2024. Retrieved from: https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latinos-black-voters-0f3fbda3362f3dcfe41aa6b858f22d12
18 Rohrlich, Justin. “Democrats are spending a whopping 73% more than Republican rivals this election season,” Independent, 19 October 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-gop-political-ad-spending-character-transgender-b2632173.html
19 Immigration Hub. “October 2024 Right-Wing Media Report,” October 2024. Retrieved from: https://theimmigrationhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Right-Wing-Media-Report_-October-2024.pdf
20 Robin Levinson-King. “Trump gets $15m in ABC News defamation case,” BBC News, 15 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrw57q4y9do
21 Kates, Grapham. “Trump sues Des Moines Register over poll, promises more lawsuits against news outlets after ABC News settlement,” CBS News, 17 December 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-threatens-lawsuit-des-moines-register-poll-media/
22Marshall, Lisa. “2 years after Roe v. Wade reversal: Impacts and what’s to come,” CU Boulder Today, 20 June 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/06/20/2-years-after-roe-v-wade-reversal-impacts-and-whats-come
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid
25 Alfonseca, Kiara. “Election fact check: Trump, Harris on transgender issues,” ABC News, 1 November 2024. Retrieved from: