I would note that the S&P auto index has added 1.2% in the first month.
The auto industry has added something like 50,000 jobs after recently losing several hundred thousand; Detroit's market-share remains basically stuck compared to imports; and GM's "Volt" is about to get its clock cleaned by better Japanese electric cars.
Yahoo, which in the last year focused more heavily on social-networking services, has added a similar service to its Autos category.
Since its most recent employment low in January 2010, manufacturing has added 489,000 jobs, largely in durable goods manufacturing (i.e., auto sector).
Sung Won Sohn, executive vice president and chief economist of Wells Fargo & Company, said that brisk auto sales had added half a percentage point to the nation's economic growth in the second quarter.
Kasich was citing authoritative numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics when he initially told me that the state had added only 700 jobs related to auto manufacturing.
Indeed, in the past year automakers, and auto-parts makers, have added forty-five thousand workers.
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Since then, he said, businesses have added more than 7.5 million jobs, an improving housing market has helped construction companies recover and auto sales continue growing.
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