Although 2016 recorded one of the worst performances in independent business formation in decades, this year is beginning to reverse this trend as President Trump is starting to make good on his many positive pre-election promises.
As the first business-savvy president in the group of 44 previous national leaders, Trump is well aware of the fact that the bulk of manufacturing and major service jobs had shrunk dramatically since the late 1990s. This negative trend was magnified by the thousands of mechanical and technological crafts personnel, whose previous technical training schools had been largely shuttered in the latter part of the 1900s.