{"id":876836,"date":"2025-10-11T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/americas-blue-collar-workforce-is-shrinking\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:20:14","slug":"americas-blue-collar-workforce-is-shrinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/americas-blue-collar-workforce-is-shrinking\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s blue-collar workforce is shrinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s blue-collar workforce is shrinking, as President Trump&#8217;s policies hit the same sectors he vowed to reinvigorate.Why it matters: Hiring is stalling out nearly across the board amid drastic shifts in trade and immigration policies. But perhaps nowhere is it more apparent than in the labor sectors that expected a Trump-era boost.By the numbers: The labor market&#8217;s summer hiring drought was particularly painful for industrial parts of the economy.The &#8220;manufacturing recession&#8221; \u2014 underway for years \u2014 got uglier&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/09\/06\/trump-jobs-labor-blue-collar\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Courtenay Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s blue-collar workforce is shrinking, as President Trump&#8217;s policies hit the same sectors he vowed to reinvigorate.Why it matters: Hiring is stalling out nearly across the board amid drastic shifts in trade and immigration policies. But perhaps nowhere is it more apparent than in the labor sectors that expected a Trump-era boost.By the numbers: The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,29429,192],"tags":[7546,146689],"class_list":{"0":"post-876836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-americas","8":"category-blue-collar","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-americas","11":"tag-blue-collar"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}