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What effect did the Great Recession have on manufacturing employment?

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During both recessions, a large decline in industry employment occurred. From December 2007 until December 2009— when manufacturing employment reached a new low— the manufacturing industry lost 2 million jobs, or 17 per- cent of its workforce, and industry employment fell to its lowest level since March 1941

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