Where have all the factory jobs gone ?
The U.S. has lost more than 5 million manufacturing jobs within the past 25 years, hindering the financial mobility of workers without a college degree and taking a particularly heavy toll on workers of color, according to a new report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. At the same time, low-wage service jobs have soared.
"All workers, and especially Black and brown workers were hurt by the loss of more than 5 million manufacturing jobs in this period,” says Robert Scott, senior economist at EPI and co-author of the report that evaluated data […]
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