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👇400,000 new manufacturing jobs; 4% to 9% year-over-year blue collar wage increases; 1 million currently available jobs, and the lowest unemployment in 50+ years, begs to differ....
#Reality #MAGAnomics
#Reality #MAGAnomics
2) In November 2018, the Unemployment Rate Stood At a Historically Low 3.7%. In August 2018, the United States posted the highest number of job openings in history, at 7.3 million. There are now more jobs available than there are unemployed Americans. marketwatch.com/story/us-job-o…
4) Hourly pay for non-supervisors rose 3.2% (avg) in November 2018 from a year earlier, the best annual gain since mid-2000. bls.gov/news.release/w… 
5) More than 500 companies have announced wage increases, bonuses, new hiring, or enhanced benefits affecting over 6 million employees. atr.org/list
6) According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), tax reform is working, and the relief is driving record optimism about the economy among small and independent business owners. nfib.com/advocacy/taxes/
7) According to tax reform impact study (Ernst and Young), 89% of surveyed executives enhance worker compensation, while 75% likely to expand American manufacturing, and 66% plan to “pass some of their tax savings on to consumers.” ey.com/us/en/newsroom…
8) In Q3 2018, the WF/Gallup Small Business Index achieved an all-time high of 118 points, “12 percentage points higher than last quarter and the highest level in the survey’s 15-year history.” wellsfargoworks.com/insights/press…
9) Over the past year, equipment investment has grown by 6.6 percent at an annual rate, business investment in structures has grown by 6.3%, and in intellectual property by 7.6%
10) Real private nonresidential fixed investment growth has grown at an average annualized rate of 6.8 percent over the past year (since the third quarter of 2017). bea.gov/news/2018/gros…
11) Those are the facts.
