Manufacturing employment at century low

May 15th, 2009 at 02:24pm Alex Gary

According to Illinois Department of Employment Security estimates, there were about 30,400 people working in the manufacturing industry in March in Boone and Winnebago counties.

This was a decline of 100 workers from February and, looking back to 2000, is the lowest total this decade.

In January 2000, there were 44,700 people in manufacturing.

The figures aren’t likely to improve in April and May considering the Chrysler plant in Belvidere and all of its supplier plants have either been working at half capacity or shut down entirely.

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