[The Louiswu]

I would like to see metrics on how much manufacturing we are bringing back into the United States.

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Chat GPT says: Here’s the quick, no-frills summary:
~200k–250k manufacturing jobs/year are being added via reshoring and foreign investment That’s real growth, but only ~1–2% of the total workforce annually
$500B+ in factory investment is flowing into the U.S. (especially chips, EVs, advanced tech) ~70% of manufacturers are now reshoring or trying to But:
The U.S. is still down ~6.6 million manufacturing jobs since 1979 New factories are highly automated, so they create fewer jobs Overall impact = partial rebound, not a full comeback
👉 Bottom line: Manufacturing is coming back—but in a smaller, more automated, slower-growing form than the old industrial era.

[zeestephen]

The best statistic - which I rarely see any more - is manufacturing sales per employee.

15 years ago, USA manufacturing employees were 6X times more productive than Chinese employees.

Today?

I have no idea.

[AZJeep]

Well, we were outshoring and loosing manufacturing jobs since 1979.
It would be an miracle to get these jobs back in a YEAR!
But we turned the corner!