How Metropolitan Areas Can Recharge Manufacturing

Perhaps the only silver lining to the Great Recession is that it triggered a new focus on manufacturing in the United States. After 25 years of being sold a shiny vision of a service-dominated post-industrial economy, the U.S. is rediscovering how important it is to actually make things in order to spur innovation, raise wages, drive exports and lower the trade deficit.
http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2012/05/09-manufacturing-katz-daley

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