Creating Manufacturing Jobs - The 5 Critical Factors

Just about everybody thinks that American Manufacturing is an important part of the economy and we should create more manufacturing jobs. Back in 1979, there were 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S. but by 2001 the total had reduced to 17 million. Between 2001 and 2010 we lost 5.6 million more manufacturing jobs and hit bottom at 11.3. million manufacturing jobs in 2010.