Report: U.S. has lost millions of manufacturing jobs in 8 years

More bad news on the manufacturing front. The Alliance for American Manufacturing reports that the U.S. has lost more than 4 million manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.

The Washington-based group based its findings on data from the national Current Employment Statistics survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the data, the U.S. employed 17,202,000 in manufacturing in November 2000. That figure dropped to 13,168,000 in November 2008.

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  1. ictBest
    Posted December 28, 2008 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

    Rumor has it at Cessna that they will announce 1600 layoffs in February.