Last Friday brought us the March 2022 jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and while we didn’t make a big deal out of it, it was a low-key pleasant development for the health of American economy: The U.S. manufacturing sector added another 38,000 jobs out of a total 431,000 created.
That’s more slow, steady and incremental progress for jobs in the U.S. factories since March 2020 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic – when manufacturing employment quite literally fell off a cliff and 1.3 million jobs were eliminated. It’s nearly back, in fact, to pre-pandemic levels.
