[somniferum]

Over the past five years, the U.S. economy experienced a net job loss in goods-producing activities. The entire job growth was in service-providing activities - primarily credit intermediation, health care and social assistance, waiters, waitresses and bartenders, and state and local government.

U.S. manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17 percent of the manufacturing workforce. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.

Did the amount of goods produced go up or down? Without saying that, this is a meaningless statistic.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Did the amount of goods produced go up or down? Without saying that, this is a meaningless statistic.