The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
In 2012, Brookings Institution identified three manufacturing sub-sectors employing unusually high concentrations of engineering and science occupations as “very high-tech” manufacturing:Computer and electronic productsPharmaceuticals & medicineAerospace products and partsWhile these sub-sectors don’t capture the entirety of high-tech manufacturing, they do represent a large portion of it. Using 2022 County Business Patterns data from the Census Bureau, I’ve created a map to summarize the curren...
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