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The manufacturing job slump pre-dates Bush
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| Contributor | Tony82 |
| Last Edited | Tony82 Sep 09, 2003 08:58pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 9, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Democratic hopefuls have been among Bush's most vocal critics. U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.), accused him of having the worst economic policy since the Great Depression at an April fundraiser in Connecticut. "They have the most wrong-headed economic policies that we've seen since Herbert Hoover," she said. U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) has termed Bush the "job-loss president." U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) said, "I hope his tour of [Ohio] will include the empty factories and bankrupt corporations." These themes will continue through November 2004.
Critics like Clinton and Kerry should have started complaining about manufacturing job losses five years ago. Massachusetts and New York were among the 22 states that recorded losses during William Jefferson Clinton's presidency. Manufacturing employment reached a peak this business cycle in March 1998 under President Clinton, who had the worst record of job creation (1.9 percent) in the sector among Democrats since the 1930s.
The following states recorded manufacturing job losses under Bill Clinton (January 1993-January 2001): New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, Maine, Alaska, Louisiana, and Hawaii. |
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