Incredible Interactive Charts Show Big Manufacturing Gains Under D Presidents, Big Losses Under Rs

Via Michael Morrison at the blog Decisions Based On Evidence, The Keystone Research Center and the Iowa Policy Project have jointly crafted and just released a report detailing U.S. manufacturing job gains and losses during Republican and Democratic presidential administrations going all the way back to 1948.

The results are stunning. According the report's authors, "The Democratic administrations have added an average of between 160,000 and 250,000 manufacturing jobs each year, while Republican ones have lost manufacturing jobs at about the same rate."

In addition to the full PDF Report, The study results, based on Bureau of Labor statistics, have been compiled into two handy interactive charts that show gains and losses nationally and for each individual state. The time period metrics of the charts for each presidential term can also be changed just by clicking on a button. Anyone who cares about the manufacturing sector in this country deserves to see these charts.

The first interactive chart, a map of the U.S., can be viewed here.

The second chart, a bar graph, can be viewed here.

Here's another quote, from Dr. Colin Gordon, a senior research consultant at IPP: “If the manufacturing jobs score under Republicans had matched that under Democrats, the U.S. would have roughly twice as many manufacturing jobs as it does today—the U.S. manufacturing jobs share today would be similar to Germany’s.”