New interactive map shows four decades' worth of manufacturing growth and decline
Posted by LDonia on 06/20/2012
The Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University posted an interactive timeline map that tells the history of American manufacturing.
Users can see manufacturing job growth and decline, from 1971 to 2011.
AU journalism students combed through PDF versions of the Statistical Analysis of the United States to extrapolate data for the map.
Check out the interactive map here, or read about their methodology here.
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