Manufacturing Sector Losing Jobs

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March 14th, 2008
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The manufacturing sector has lost 3.4 million jobs – one out of every six manufacturing jobs – since 2000, the worst decline since the demobilization after World War II. Many of these jobs have gone overseas.

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U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Archived News Releases for Employment Situation. http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm; See also: Robert E. Scott. “Manufacturing Job Loss: Productivity is Not the Culprit.” Economic Policy Institute. February 2007. http://www.epi.org/content.cfm?id=2626; See also: Martin Crutsinger, “Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000” Associated Press, 20 April 2007. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1
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