Look out at the sea of warehouses in the Inland Empire, crowded big rigs on Southern California freeways and massive ships in the ever-expanding ports and it’s clear that the trade and logistics industries have had a good decade.
Now a report from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation puts numbers to that picture, finding that the trade and logistics workforce grew by nearly 10 percent from 2005-2015 and now totals nearly 600,000 people.
Economists used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce. They found that […]
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