Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100811:19:09:00
A few areas of our economy have been as hard hit as manufacturing. not just in recent years but in recent decades. throughout the 20th century, manufacturing was the ticket to a better life for generations of american workers. it was the furnace that forged our middle class. but over time, people learned to do more with less and outsourced whatever they could. other nations didn't always live up to trade agreements and we didn't always enforce them. and over the last decade, the manufacturing workforce shrank by 3%. -- 33%, leaving millions of hard-working americans sitting as idle as the plan...
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