MOScout Sunday6: Manufacturing Jobs Disappear - Choosing Not to Vaccinate - Faith in Unions and more…

1 – 2. Households on government support and new billionaires, by state.

Source: Visual Capitalist.

Source: Visual Capitalist.

3. Data center capacity.

Source: Mike Zaccardi.

4. As widely reported, job growth is stalling.  Partially because we’ve stopped importing workers, and partially because of Trump’s erratic tariff “policy.”   The surprise is the decline in manufacturing jobs.  Tariffs were promised to add more manufacturing jobs.  Turns out when you slow the economy through anti-free market policies, it hurts every sector – including manufacturing.

Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve.

5. Choosing not to vaccinate, by state.

Source: USAFACTS.

6. It’s remarkable that while faith in institutions has been decaying over the past few decades, union approval has remained steady.

Source: Gallup.