Manufacturing employment has rebounded nationally, but growth is concentrated in the Sun Belt and Mountain West, while the Rust Belt continues to rust.
By August Benzow and Connor O’Brien
Manufacturing employment in the United States has surpassed its pre-pandemic levels, the first time since the 1970s that the sector has regained all the jobs it lost in a recession. Yet its recovery lags behind job growth in other sectors of the economy and masks large regional disparities.In nearly half of the country’s states — and fully half of all counties — manufacturing employment has not yet rebounded to 2019 […]
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