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On the recordJune 16, 2011
we had 397,000 factories in this country at the beginning of the last decade. We only have 343,000 now.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Pointing out the significant loss of factories over the decade.

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