Manufacturing Around the World

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released statistics on job markets around the industrialized world over the last 40 years. One interesting tidbit: While Americans sometimes complain that the country doesn’t “make” anything anymore — a sentiment related to manufacturing’s long-term slide in this country — they should know that declines in manufacturing jobs are common in the rest of the developed world, too.

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