Thus, they always had better abilities to feed their population and run manufacturing better than India.
The city lost 10% of its population in the 1980s, as manufacturing jobs drifted offshore.
Sandy affected a broader geographic area than most storms, hitting a bigger population and a range of industries from manufacturing and finance to retail and shipping.
This skills gap is sure to grow as the population ages and industries from health care to manufacturing are altered by technology.
Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
Citing unprecedented movements of the population to areas with heavy concentrations of armaments manufacturing and responding to the administration's orders, the Census Bureau unveiled a 1941 plan to conduct an annual sample census.
But the result of losing manufacturing is surely a relatively non-numerate and scientifically illiterate population, which at a time of huge technological progress strikes me as something of a disadvantage.
And you can see that in urban areas all across the country where communities that may have been hollowed out when manufacturing left, or were having problems because of an aging population, suddenly you see an influx of immigration, and you see streets that were full of boarded-up buildings, suddenly they're vibrant with life once again.
If you look at New South Wales and Victoria, the states where half Australia's population reside, property markets are poor, retail and manufacturing are soft, which is the two-speed economy everyone's talking about.
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Our first virtual town hall of the hour is in Kokomo, Indiana, population 45, 000, four Chrysler plants, Delphi electronics, manufacturing on a big scale, but in a sector, cars, that's shrinking.
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India's great priority is to create millions of jobs for its young, bulging and little-skilled population, which will be possible only if it makes huge strides in manufacturing.
Far from dead, our manufacturing sector is the world's largest, with 5% of the world's population producing five times their share in industrial goods.
The Sporting Goods Manufacturing Association, another industry trade group, said baseball participation fell 12.7% for the overall population.
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For example, a company you may know best for manufacturing lawnmowers and tractors has a much bigger mission, aimed squarely at global challenges and opportunities: the impact of population growth on food production, and growing affluence in developing countries leading to greater urbanization, more infrastructure, improved housing and food choices.
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