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local manufacturing  

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  • A few decades ago, manufacturing represented 7 percent of all businesses and 22 percent of all jobs in the United States. Today, because of the high growth in the service sector's portion of the overall economy, a little more than 3 percent of firms and just under 15 percent of employees are engaged in manufacturing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Local Manufacturing]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QRV0ZKQ3-1

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