Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms

Daniel McCarthy / NEW YORK POST 

 

American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as

Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August.

Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.”

The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.”

The workforce participation rate rose as well — which matters, because people who drop out of the labor force are invisible in unemployment rates that only count those who are looking for work.

This economy is pulling Americans who’d given up hope off the sidelines and putting them to work.Read more, see video and photos here.