Manufacturing Job Loss: The Consequences of Malign Neglect of the Dollar and Chinese Overcapacity
[ Robert Scott| September 02, 2016 | EPI] Today’s Jobs Report from the BLS showed that the U.S. manufacturing sector lost 14,000 jobs in August and has now lost 57,000 jobs since January of this year. This job loss is, in part, a consequence of the sharp rise of the dollar in 2014 and 2015, which has…