California loses 123,400 manufacturing jobs
Every state but Alaska lost manufacturing jobs during the past 12 months, according to a Business First of Buffalo analysis of new federal data.
Ohio experienced the worst drop, losing 127,000 manufacturing jobs in a year. California and Michigan also had declines in excess of 100,000 jobs.
The overall national loss was 1.52 million manufacturing jobs — from 13.44 million in July 2008 to 11.92 million in July 2009.
