The U.S. manufacturing sector shed eight million jobs between 1979 and 2009, going from 19.6 million to 11.5 million, seasonally adjusted. "Trump's Economic Record Is Divided: Before Covid and After" at 10:03 a.m. ET on Oct. 14, 2020, incorrectly said that the decline equaled more than half of the sector's workers.

 

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