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Two swing states narrowly won by President Trump over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 were the sites of the greatest losses in manufacturing jobs between 2018 and 2019, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. The agency's state employment survey found that Wisconsin has lost about 5,200 manufacturing jobs since August of last year. In Pennsylvania, losses of manufacturing jobs topped 7,700, according to the survey.

      Why factory jobs may be returning to America What 2014 could bring after years of losing manufacturing jobs to low-cost Asia by Tamsin McMahon on Thursday, January 2, 2014 5:00am - 11 Comments VIEW IN CLEAN READING MODE » WHAT IS THIS ?   Workers at the Motorola smartphone plant in Fort Worth, Texas. (LM Otero/AP) With its 1.5 million factory workers earning as little as $300 a month to make iPhones, laptops and PlayStations, the Chinese behemoth Foxconn has become a potent symbol of America’s manufacturing decline and the transfer of jobs to Asia.Which is why so many...

Report: Exporting Jobs Overseas Will Help U.S WASHINGTON — The movement of American factory jobs and white-collar work to other countries is part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time, even if it causes short-term pain and dislocation, the Bush administration said today. The embrace of foreign "outsourcing," an accelerating trend that has contributed to U.S. job losses in recent years and has become an issue in the 2004 elections, is contained in the president's annual report to Congress on the health of the U.S. economy. "Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international...

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More than half of UK manufacturers will axe jobs next year as a response to the Government's tax rises, the Engineering Employers' Federation warned yesterday. A survey of its members revealed that the 1pc increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) announced by the Chancellor in the Budget would also lead to an increasing number of firms moving production abroad. The increase in NICs will be levied from next April. Some 53pc of the 1,000 companies surveyed said they would reduce their employment levels, 54pc said future wage increases would be lower, while 32pc said they would transfer costs abroad. In...