And those 2.8 million American workers who in recent years have lost their factory jobs?
The nation has lost three million factory jobs over the past four and a half years.
The area has lost 500 of 12,100 factory jobs, most in the past year.
The 85,000 factory jobs lost last month were in all areas of industry.
These are factory jobs, among the best paid in America.
Some 335,000 factory jobs have been lost since March 1989.
In the last 20 years, the state has lost 220,000 factory jobs, according to Federal labor officials.
Between 1980 and 1990, the city lost more than a quarter of its factory jobs.
White workers lost many factory jobs, too - 1.7 million in all.
Factory jobs showed little change for the second straight month.
