America’s manufacturing sector has been in decline for more than a decade. But the recession made things worse.
Ninety-nine of the nation’s 100 biggest labor markets lost manufacturing jobs during the past three years, according to an On Numbers study of new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Thirty-one of these metropolitan areas lost more than 10,000 manufacturing positions each. (See the sortable database at the end of this story.)
That marks an acceleration of the downward spiral that began in the late 1990s. National manufacturing employment slipped every April between 1998 and 2008, posting an average annual decline of 400,000 jobs. The erosion sped up to 600,000 jobs per year after the recession hit in 2008.
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Author:
G. Scott Thomas
