Labor & Economic News Blog
Monday, April 17, 2006
It's not just Ford jobs that are leaving
It's not just Ford jobs that are leavingIn StarTribune.com Business
Every month, 10,000 to 12,000 Minnesotans watch their jobs disappear. That's the equivalent of a closed Ford plant every five or six days. Most of those lost jobs are not in manufacturing. But those that are reflect an abiding pattern: Manufacturing jobs, as a share of Minnesota employment, have been on the decline for generations, falling with the advent of technology improvements and productivity gains. Companies continue to make more with less, a phenomenon that puts a check on consumer prices but makes manufacturing-job security harder to come by each passing year. In 1990, nearly one
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