This is an industry that means 10 million jobs $1.3 trillion in total economic activity, and 5.2 percent of the gross domestic product for our economy in 2009 alone, the last year we have data to measure it by.
Johnny Isakson: “This is an industry that means 10 million jobs $1.3 trillion in total economic activity, and 5.2 percent of the gross…”
On the recordJuly 17, 2012
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Stresses the economic impact of the aerospace industry.
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