Trump’s “Blue-Collar Boom” Is Over. The Charts Prove It.

AI panic is about white-collar jobs. Blue-collar workers are the ones quietly getting wiped out.

1. AI gets the headlines. Blue-collar workers take the hit.

If you listen to American media right now, you would think the main victims of the economy are coders and bankers scared of AI.

But the latest Labor Department data that Newsweek used tells a different story.
Blue-collar work is sliding backward again.

Manufacturing, construction, mining and logging, transportation and warehousing, utilities
put them together, and blue-collar job growth just turned negative for the first time since the pandemic. The White House is still talking about “reviving the blue-collar boom from Trump’s first term.” The charts say that boom is dead.

This is not about feelings. It is about the shape of those bars.