Four million manufacturing jobs gone in last eight years

According to the Current Employment Statistics of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which were distributed by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (Washington, D.C.), more than 4 million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost since November 2000. In that month, there were 17,202,000 people working in manufacturing jobs. In November 2008 that group had been reduced to 13,168,000.—[email protected]