Millions of manufacturing jobs have disappeared across America since 2000, evaporating in a furnace-like blast of economic upheaval. U.S. factory employment fell from 17.3 million workers in the summer of 2000 to just 11.8 million last July, a drop of nearly 32 percent.

While there has been a small uptick in manufacturing jobs during the past year, it doesn't come close to replacing what has been lost.

Source: Scripps Howard

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