The country is on course to repeat a pattern seen in every recession since manufacturing jobs peaked in June 1979: a structural step-down in employment even amid a sustained expansion in output. Employers, who have already cut a net 582,000 factory jobs compared with the pre-Covid-19 level, aim to emerge leaner and meaner from the crisis. Signing an executive order Jan. 25 to encourage more federal government purchases of American-made products, Biden dismissed “the defeatist view” that the US couldn’t create more manufacturing jobs. That’s in the run-up to a congressional address in which he is expected to lay out his “build back better” plan, including components to create more manufacturing jobs that advisers hope will spark some bipartisan action. Indiana’s PainBetween 2001 and 2019, Indiana lost 72,000 manufacturing jobs, the report found.

Source: Hindustan Times February 10, 2021 10:42 UTC