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3. I read where manufacturing has piked up slightly but manufacturing jobs were good paying

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 6, 2019, 04:37 PM

Sep 2019

union jobs in the past. Now new manufacturing jobs don't pay a living wage, so where is the gain. Just as well
have service jobs, I sure don't want to work in a steel mill for $10 an hour.

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The steel industry picked up some the last couple doc03 Sep 2019 #1

Something a talking head said on TV that is true Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #2

I read where manufacturing has piked up slightly but manufacturing jobs were good paying doc03 Sep 2019 #3

Exactly, Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #4