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Agriculture and its related industries provide 11 percent of U.S. employment

Food accounts for 12.9 percent of American households’ expenditures

Food manufacturing accounts for 14 percent of all U.S. manufacturing employees

Food and nutrition assistance programs make up the largest share of USDA outlays

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/ag-and-food-sectors-and-the-economy.aspx


70 posted on 08/05/2019 3:42:06 PM PDT by Raycpa
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Agriculture and its related industries provide 11 percent of U.S. employment

Let me make his more clear agriculture is 2% of employment( 4% if you count fishing and timber) and related industries are 10%. Fixed it.

78 posted on 08/05/2019 5:10:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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