Around three-fourths of the jobs lost were in manufacturing.
We already know that millions of American manufacturing workers lost their jobs after China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001. Now, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is taking a deeper dive into that job loss — looking at the industries, states, and even congressional districts most impacted by this job loss.
Around 3.4 million jobs total were lost between 2001 and 2015 due to the U.S.-China trade deficit, according to the report, and 2.6 million of these jobs were in the manufacturing sector.
