Report: NC manufacturing jobs on upswing -TechWire Insider

Posted February 12

Report: NC manufacturing jobs on upswing

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By Frank Vinluan, special to WRAL Tech Wire

Raleigh, N.C. —

Manufacturing accounts for 440,000 North Carolina jobs today; in rural parts of North Carolina, manufacturing accounts for 14 percent of total employment and $9.3 billion in annual wagesCopyright 2013 WRAL Tech Wire. All rights reserved.

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