Economics
Two U.S. Swing States Lost the Most Factory Jobs in Past Year
- Pennsylvania, Wisconsin payrolls fall amid gains elsewhere
- The states’ voters are key for 2020 election as race heats up
A worker checks a machine at a factory in Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
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As the U.S. presidential campaign heats up, Democratic candidates may want to look at two Rust Belt states that narrowly helped deliver Donald Trump’s victory in 2016: Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The two swing states lost the most manufacturing jobs in the past 12 months, bucking the national trend. In Pennsylvania, home to steel mills, the number of factory positions fell by about 8,000 and in Wisconsin the loss was just over 5,000, according to regional data from the Labor Department Friday.