You still haven’t addressed the fact that 87 percent of US manufacturing job losses this century have resulted from productivity improvements, not from plants moving to foreign countries.
And you haven’t shown that that figure is remotely connected to the massive outsourcing that has eliminated American manufacturing jobs in the last two decades. Let’s see you bring up the study so we can see how they arrive at that figure instead of having you parrot it like it’s Gospel.
And if you intend to come across as less of a dunce you could at least copy the figure correctly from the article, it’s 85%.
According to the American Prospect, since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million jobs lost in the past two years.
The American Prospect also estimates that, since 2001, 42,400 American factories have closed their doors, and roughly three-fourths of those employed over 500 people while they were in operation.
According to Moody’s, one million of those jobs will never come back. And the National Association of Manufacturers says that the best-case scenario is 540,000 of those jobs returning or being replaced in the manufacturing sector in the next five years.