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    Employment by Industry in October

    Written by Peter Wright


    Through October, manufacturing has added 742,000 jobs and construction 789,000 since the pandemic-driven crash in April.

    The baseline against which future comparisons are made in this analysis is February 2020, the all-time high for nonfarm employment. Figure 1 shows the total number of people employed in the nonfarm economy.

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