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10. Bernie is right. Manufacturing employment peaked in 1979 at about 19.5 million. Went to

Mon Oct 5, 2015, 03:28 PM

Oct 2015

about 17.5 million by 2001 - a loss on average of about 100,000 a year over 22 years. Then manufacturing employment fell off a cliff from 2001 to 2010 falling to about 11.5 million a drop of about 6 million in 10 years or about 600,000 a year. We have regained about 500,000 up to 12 million since 2010.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/04/08/kerwin-charles-erik-hurst-and-matt-notowidigdo-on-the-u-s-labor-market/

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