Ohio and other states need to reinvigorate their manufacturing sectors, and a way to do that is through creation of advanced manufacturing centers, says the Brookings Institute.
The Brookings report, released Tuesday and reported by The Toledo Blade, says America's manufacturing base is in a slump, losing 31 percent of its jobs and seeing its contribution to gross domestic product shrink from 14 percent to just 11 percent between 2000 and 2009.
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