More and more things are being made here;U.S. Census data shows manufacturing in the U.S. (and Texas) continues to rebound

No matter what data you look at, manufacturing in the U.S. continues to increase.   Sales for all U.S. manufacturers exceeded $1.69 trillion in the 1st quarter of 2012.  In comparison, 1st quarter sales of manufacturing goods had falling to about $1.2  trillion at the deepest point of the ‘great recession’ in 2009.

Manufacturing levels have reached, and slightly exceeded  pre-recession economic output in nominal or non-inflation adjusted terms.  Before the recession, manufacturing 1st quarter sales were at $1.6 trillion in nominal or non-inflation adjusted terms.

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So where is a good source for manufacturing output information?

http://www.census.gov/econ/manufacturing.html

The U.S. Census industry portal is also a good source

http://www.census.gov/econ/isp/

 

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Dwight Steward, Ph.D.

Dr. Steward regularly writes and speaks on topics involving business and individual economic damages, employment audits, and the analysis of payroll and time data in wage and hour investigations. Dr. Steward has also held teaching positions at The University of Texas-Austin in the Department of Economics and in the Red McCombs School of Business, The College of Business at Sam Houston State University, and at The University of Iowa. He has taught numerous courses in statistics, corporate finance, labor economics, business policies, managerial economics, and microeconomics.