by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
This is one of those reports that remind us that increasing manufacturing in the U.S. should be each and every president’s goal. The fact that so much what we buy here in America is made in another country because in 2010, China displaced America as the largest manufacturing country in the world.
The Congressional Research Service reported in January 2017, the most recent of its type of report, that “Manufacturing output, measured in each country’s local currency adjusted for inflation, has been growing more slowly in the United States than in China, South Korea, Germany, and Mexico, but more rapidly than in most European countries and Canada.”