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Measuring the Loss of Manufacturing Jobs (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 21, 2014
Report Number IN10109
Report Type Insight
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Five million fewer Americans work in manufacturing today than at the start of the 20th century. The causes of this decline are politically controversial; while CRS research has pointed out that other wealthy countries have experienced manufacturing employment declines (see CRS Report R42135, U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective, by Marc Levinson), other analysts have blamed factors unique to the United States, such as U.S. trade and tax policies, for what they consider a disproportionate decline in U.S. manufacturing activity.