As a group 100 major markets lost 943 manufacturing jobs every day for the past 10 years

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http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2010/12/30/phoenix-86th-as-manufacturing-jobs.html

Phoenix 86th as manufacturing jobs decline

Phoenix Business Journal - by G. Scott Thomas

Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010

Read more: Phoenix 86th as manufacturing jobs decline | Phoenix Business Journal

Phoenix ranked 86th out of the nation’s largest metro areas in the drop of manufacturing jobs over the past 10 years.

In fact, 99 of America’s 100 biggest markets have fewer manufacturing jobs today than they did 10 years ago, according to a study by sister publication Business First of Buffalo.

El Paso, Texas, suffered the worst drop in terms of percentage, losing 54.3 percent of its manufacturing jobs in 10 years. Detroit was next with a decline of 53.2 percent.

The 100 major markets, taken as a group, lost 3.44 million manufacturing jobs during the 10-year span, the equivalent of 943 per day.

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Instead of those 3.44 million workers paying into our social and safety net programs every week with their withheld taxes to help those in need, these former workers and their families are now needing to draw off of those safety net programs. Explain to me how this is going to end well.

[FreakinDJ]

1. You can't pay down the debt with Foreign made goods

America will continue to decline until our lawmakers return to "Fair Trade" and not "Free Trade" which has effectively exported America's once Mighty Manufacturing Sector

[xchrom]

2. may i suggest x posting this in the stock market watch thread? nt

[FreakinDJ]

3. Why - this more relivent to the economy and middle class

[xchrom]

4. you should visit the stock market watch thread -- you might be very pleasantly surprised. nt

[madrchsod]

5. in this data base you`ll see the top urban centers in the usa...

at the "bottom" of the page. what is`t revealed that these centers have been losing that many or more jobs since the mid 70`s.

oops...forgot the link. http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/datacenter/manufacturing-employment-nov-2010.html?appSession=57990713502139&RecordID=&PageID=2&PrevPageID=&cpipage=3&CPISortType=&CPIorderBy=

[TreasonousBastard]

6. But, where did they go? This just lists jobs losses in some areas but...

doesn't explain what happened.

NYC, for instance, has steadily been driving manufacturing businesses out as a matter of informal policy. Most have gone to the Sun Belt, (or New Jersey) while not that many have gone overseas. Sun Belt job poaching by offering cheaper land, wages, taxes, and transfer costs has been a major complaint in Massachusetts and Connecticut, too. Where did all the mills in New England and new York go?

Many jobs were lost through productivity-- it now takes far fewer man hours to build a car or house. While a good machinist can make over a hundred grand up here, his output has well more than doubled with the latest computerized milling equipment.

No one minimizes the effect of Asian or Caribbean cheap labor, but just listing how many jobs were lost doesn't tell much of a story. Besides, many of those "manufacturing" jobs were in clothing sweatshops or things like rinsing machined parts with toxic solvents and performed by immigrant labor, often at below minimum wage.

(Once again-- there are no simple answers to complex problems, and you can't wish the complexity away by ignoring it.)