Question

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, less than _____ percent of the American workforce was employed by manufacturing. Answer 10 25 50 62

Answer 1

The correct answer is B) 10.

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, less than 10 percent of the American workforce was employed by manufacturing.

Since Mexico, the United States, and Canada signed the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1993, many automobile manufacturers have moved their operations to Mexico. As part of the Free trade agreement recently revised by the Congress of the three countries and now named USMCA, United States, Mexico, and Canada Agreement, there have been many benefits for the three countries and there have also been disadvantages. For the US, car industry manufacturing jobs have diminished considerably.

Answer 2

25 percent of the workforce is employed in manufacturing.