The manufacturing industry has experienced a steady decline across the U-S over the past several decades, but a new report reveals Indiana is bucking that trend.
According to the findings from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, nearly one-in-four workers in the country were employed in manufacturing in 1940.
That share fell to 15 percent in 2000 and then to about 10 percent in 2016.
The Center’s State Initiative Director Neil Ridley explains that while Indiana also experienced a downturn, its manufacturing sector remains strong.
The report underscores increases in production capability, with manufacturing adding four trillion dollars in economic output nationally from 1947 to 2016.
n Indiana, manufacturing output per worker rose from 123-thousand dollars in 2000 to 171 thousand dollars in 2016.
