U.S. Adds 28,000 Jobs in Manufacturing--and 8,000 in Government By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 10, 2017 | 8:58 AM EST
CNSNews.com) - The United States added 28,000 jobs in manufacturing in February and 8,000 in government, according to numbers released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
So far in 2017 (January and February), the U.S. has gained 39,000 manufacturing jobs and 25,000 government jobs.
Nonetheless, in February, government jobs in the United States outnumbered manufacturing jobs by 9,942,000.
That is down from is down from the 9,956,000 margin that government jobs had over manufacturing jobs in December 2016, according to the BLS numbers.
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