Download in PDF format Get free software to read and download PDF files. For Immediate Attention January 22, 2004 Manufacturing Employment Decline Began Before 2001 -- Consecutive Monthly Factory Job Declines Began in 2000 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - Virtually all of the net payroll job loss in recent years is accounted for by the manufacturing sector, and this decline in factory jobs began before the current Administration took office, Vice Chairman Jim Saxton said today. Opponents of the Administration have repeatedly claimed that its policies have caused the decline in manufacturing employment, but fail to explain how this...