Economy
Where the Jobs Will Be in 2020
A critical look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment projections for the rest of the decade.
On February 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment projections through 2020. Despite President Obama’s vision in his State of the Union speech of "an economy built on manufacturing," the BLS predicts U.S. manufacturing employment will decline over the course of the decade even as the overall economy grows.
More specifically, manufacturing’s share of jobs will drop from 8.1 percent in 2010 to 7.0 percent in 2020.