Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, Owens President Dione Somerville and Sen. Jon Husted listen during roundtable. Husted and Sonderling came to Owens Community College to see how federal policies are being put to work. Ohio has added 3,000 manufacturing jobs in the last year, Husted said. Once an economic powerhouse, Ohio is expected to lose 675,000 people by 2050, according to the Ohio Department of Development. Under Trump’s “America First” agenda, the focus is on moving manufacturing to the U.S. – and Ohio is seeing more job growth than anytime in recent years.