Healthcare is expected to remain the engine of America’s job market through 2034

Not everyone is as sure as the BLS about the industry’s prospects.

9/8/25 11:41AM

Amid the somewhat bleaker picture painted by August’s jobs report, the US healthcare industry provided a bright spot, adding 31,000 jobs while most other sectors slumped.

Though that figure actually signals a slight slowdown — which, as noted by The Wall Street Journal, could be a concern, as the sector increasingly props up the entire jobs market — the future prospects of the industry still seem bright. Indeed, per forecasts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare-related industries are likely to top the charts in terms of employment growth in the coming decade or so.

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According to the Bureau’s numbers, jobs in healthcare and social assistance are forecast to grow an impressive 12.4% in the coming decade. That’s more than any other group, including the AI-charged “computer and mathematical” industry, which came in second, with employment projected to grow 10.1%.

As always, you can interpret this forecast in almost any way you want. The positive spin is that the service industry for the elderly and for the disabled is forecast to make more jobs (528,500) over the next decade than any other detailed industry studied by the BLS, as a growing number of people demand in-home care. That means more jobs, of course.

The negative spin would be that this is mostly only because America, like so many other nations, has an aging and increasingly sick population that will require more care going forward.

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The Trump administration is reportedly planning a 50% made-in-America requirement for USMCA tariff relief

Qualifying for USMCA-related lower tariffs may soon require more US-made vehicle components, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to introduce a 50% US content requirement for vehicles covered by the trade pact to receive lower tariffs. The content would be measured by cost, according to the WSJ.

There currently isn’t any US-specific requirement for those lower tariff rates, but in order to receive preferential tariffs, vehicles are must contain at least 75% regional content (components made in North America). Per Reuters reporting, the Trump admin is seeking to raise the regional requirement to 82%.

These reported plans are subject to change as the US negotiates USMCA terms with Mexico over the next few months.

Overall, Tesla will likely have the easiest time qualifying for any stricter requirements. The automaker’s vehicles contained the highest amount of US/Canadian content in 2025, according to American University research. Ford, GM, and Stellantis all scored lower.

Notably: the underlying government data that many domestic content measurements rely on intentionally combines US and Canadian components, so it’s difficult to know exactly how much of any given vehicle is specifically US-made.

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These reported plans are subject to change as the US negotiates USMCA terms with Mexico over the next few months.

Tom Jones5/29/26

The $640,000 Luce makes the average Ferrari look like a bargain

Put aside the shape; put aside the smoothing out of Ferrari’s iconic sharp edges; put aside, even, the calls from former Chairman and President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo to “take the Prancing Horse off.” On the grounds of price alone, Luce detractors might have a point.

By now, many of us will have read the criticisms of Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle, as the Luce — which was unveiled to the world earlier this week and promptly saw the company’s shares crash out in New York and Milan — gets subtly shaded by competitors online and not-so-subtly shaded by basically everyone else.

What makes all of this worse for Ferrari is that, even by the luxury car maker’s notoriously high standards, they’ve slapped a pretty hefty price tag on the Luce, and the company’s CEO, Benedetto Vigna, has already been forced to defend the €550,000 ($640,000) price point, saying yesterday that it’s “fair to pay for innovation,” per Reuters.

While Ferrari’s cars have been getting more expensive of late, as recently as 2022, Ferrari’s average revenue per car sold was around $340,000. At nearly twice that price, this new electric model is obviously proving a little much (visually, conceptually, and financially) for many loyal and long-standing fans of the Prancing Horse to stomach.