Sand in the Gears

How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

For most of the 20^th century Americans considered manufacturing to be the driving force of our economy, but no longer. As recently as 1980 there were over 20 million people employed in the manufacturing sector; one generation later nearly half of those jobs had disappeared, while at the same time our country added over 40 million jobs to the rest of the economy.  What happened?