Breitbart Business Digest: Factory Demand for U.S. Labor Is Rising Sharply
Demand for labor is rising across the American economy, with an especially sharp increase in manufacturing.

Demand for labor is rising across the American economy, with an especially sharp increase in manufacturing.

Job openings in the manufacturing sector rose last month to their highest level since December 2023, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Tuesday. Vacant positions in manufacturing rose to 584,000 in September from 530,000 in the prior month.

America is experiencing one of the greatest technological investment booms in our history. Yet an enormous amount of the equipment we’re using to support our Super Intelligence boom is coming from countries that spent the last several decades building the manufacturing industries we allowed, and often encouraged, to slip away.

The White House reposted a message solar manufacturer T1 Energy put out Wednesday promoting a Texas cell plant the company said will carry first-phase capital spending in excess of $500 million.

The American manufacturing sector’s renaissance was on clear display again in Tuesday’s durable goods release from the Census Bureau.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed Republicans’ closing midterm message on Wednesday before departing for a campaign stop in Texas.

The global life science company Bayer has announced a $2.2 billion investment in Ohio, adding to the over $11 trillion in investments the U.S. has seen during President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

Manufacturers hired more workers in August and job openings remained near the highest level in over two years. The quits rate for manufacturing workers, a signal of confidence, rose to the highest in nearly two years.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to build the largest steel plant in U.S. history in Iowa.

President Donald Trump announces that the largest steel mill in U.S. history will be built in Iowa on Monday, September 28.

Texas manufacturing activity accelerated sharply in September, with output, new orders, and hiring all rising well above their historical norms.

Factory activity in the central U.S. accelerated sharply in September, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City survey released Thursday. It was the latest in a series of reports pointing to an economy gathering momentum heading into the

“US business continues to boom,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence

U.S. manufacturing production fell in August for the first time this year, as declines in motor vehicles and aerospace led a broader retreat across several sectors. Factory output dropped 0.3 percent after rising 0.2 percent in July, the Federal Reserve

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said economists have underestimated President Trump’s economic policies, pointing to manufacturing growth, construction jobs, and private-sector gains.

This will be a special edition of our weekly wrap focused on the employment situation in America.

America appears to be building its way to disinflation.

Manufacturing employment increased during both the first and second quarters, with the gains concentrated in durable-goods industries. That combination is unusual: outside of post-recession rebounds, durable-goods manufacturers have not posted productivity growth of at least 3.6 percent in consecutive quarters while also adding jobs in both quarters since the late 1990s.

Manufacturing is surging thanks to the Trump administration’s potent economic cocktail of expansionary tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and a pro-manufacturing trade policy enabled by tariffs.

Vacancies in durable goods manufacturing climbed to 429,000, up from 353,000 in June and 255,000 a year ago.

Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose more than expected in July, while shipments of business equipment surged, offering further evidence that the boom in capital spending and American manufacturing extended into the third quarter. New orders for durable goods increased

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said Tuesday that the Trump administration is onshoring critical supply chains the United States spent decades sending overseas.

Vance called out The Wall Street Journal directly over their long-standing support for open borders and the policies which led to the hollowing of American manufacturing in the Midwest.

Vice President JD Vance criticized the Wall Street Journal and Democrats for supporting open border policies that have allowed millions of illegal aliens into the United States.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spent much of last year predicting that the Trump administration’s policies would set off a boom in capital spending.

A capital-spending boom is boosting American manufacturing, with production of business equipment accelerating this year and strength spreading beyond computers into machinery, electrical equipment, fabricated metals and aerospace. Output of business equipment rose 0.8 percent in July and was 6.6

The best-kept secret in the U.S. economy right now is that we’re experiencing a manufacturing renaissance.

So much for the idea that tariffs would damage U.S. productivity and manufacturing.

The U.S. manufacturing sector is expanding at the strongest pace in four years as output surges, firms add workers, and demand continues to grow, according to a key measure of factory health released Monday.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer responded to a report that the Trump tariffs cost manufacturing jobs by saying that “we lost 220,000 manufacturing jobs in the last two years with President Biden. Last

Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy believes there is a “second industrial revolution” underway right now, discussing how to properly usher it into the Buckeye State during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Breitbart News conducts live interviews at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, on Wednesday, July 15.

The Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, continues on Wednesday, July 15.

Pennsylvania’s Defense and Innovation Summit is all about reinforcing President Donald Trump’s peace through strength agenda, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) told Breitbart News on Tuesday during an exclusive interview at the event.

America will beat China in the war for global supremacy, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) said during an interview with Breitbart News at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on Tuesday.

New orders and factory production continued to expand in June as inflationary pressures eased.

American Chemistry Council President and CEO Chris Jahn cheered the Trump administration’s work to repeal onerous regulations, stating that doing so helps American manufacturing and keeps the U.S. competitive on the global stage.

American Chemistry Council (ACC) President and CEO Chris Jahn said at the Council’s first policy summit on Thursday that there is a dire need to enact permitting reform, noting that the Empire State Building was permitted and built in only two years.

The American factory revival continues.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday laid out a doctrine of “economic statecraft,” telling the Economic Club of New York that the United States would wield its economic power “in service of our sovereignty” and warning that a country unable
