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Article: South Carolina Industrial Jobs Down 10% Over Twenty-Four Months.
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- Chemicals & Chemistry
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Industrial employment in South Carolina fell 10.2% over the past twenty-four months according to the 2010 South Carolina Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI) Evanston, IL. MNI reports South Carolina lost 30,382 manufacturing jobs over the past two years, with 24,393 jobs lost between August 2007 and August 2008 and 5,989 industrial jobs from 2008 to August of this year.
Manufacturers' News reports South Carolina is now home to 5,169 manufacturers employing 271,676 workers, compared to a high of 385,000 industrial workers recorded by MNI in 1994. The loss of nearly 25,000 manufacturing jobs over the ...