it s about being a look your kid in the eye and say, honey, it s going to be okay. and mean it.. well, folksfo, so let s look at the results. we re not finished yet by any stretch of the imagination. but unemployment rate is at three point four percent, a 50 a year low near near record unemployment, near record unemployment for black and hispanic workers. we ve already created your help. eight hundred thousand good payment factory jobs, the fastest growth in 40 years. where is it written? e is i where is it written that america cathn lead the world in manufacturing? and i don t know where that s written fowritten?r many decadee import a projection of exported jobsan. now, thanks to what you ve all done, we re exporting american products and creating americancn jobs. in inflation has beenause
of electric vehicles. but it s coming at a steep cost to white collar workers. thousands have reportedly been laid off since gretchen whitmer took office. our next guest writes, quote, her actions are helping to kill the very auto jobs she claims to care so much about. joining us now, managing editor of michigan capital confidential james david dixon. james, welcome to fox & friends. so explain these layoffs, because they were given, what, $100 million subsidy to hire blue collar workers, but now white collar workers are getting laid off almost in the exact same number. absolutely, good morning. i call it the okey-doke, right? in june michigan lawmakers decide to give ford $100 million. they re going to create 3030 auto jobs. those are blue collar, factory jobs. two months later, ford announces it s laying off 3,000 white collar workers, mostly in
that money is only there because the bill passed with some bipartisan support in the senate and some in the house. very limited, very few republican votes for this, even among the republicans who decided there was enough there worth asking for. isaac, thank you. thank you. made in america is making a comeback. a post pandemic manufacturing boom has increased profits and created scores i would say more than scores of new jobs. many more scores of new jobs but more workers are still needed. christine romans is here. i assume it s more than like multiples of 20s because that would be scores. it s thousands, actually. it s less rosy the rifter and rosie the robotics technician. these are highly skilled, highly paid factory jobs in big demand. they gave me an official offer today. one open position filled. this is our open requisition
capable robot. designed to be an extremely capable robot but made in very high volume ultimately millions of units and it is expected to cost much less than a car. greg: musk insisted that optimists will be incredible within 5-10 years and eventually able to take factory jobs that humans didn t want like, for example, making more optimus robots. and there s no way that back fires. he added the main issue with optimus is that it didn t have a brain and couldn t problem solve on its own which already qualifies him to occupy the white house. that was such an easy joke i feel dirty inside. emily, these are going to be what do you make of this? i think elon musk is on to something, we re all going to have robots he s just the first to make it. emily: he talked about the original mission was to accelerate to sustainable energy and then in acknowledging, everyone was like how does this go to that mission. he s like yeah, i don t know,