Manufacturing drives research and innovation. It promotes skills development. And it pays better than a lot of other jobs. The average hourly pay for a factory worker making durable goods was $20.15 in January, almost a dollar an hour better than the broad service category.

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Job growth may be inching up, but the economy is taking its own sweet time to recover. Statistics show that it will be 2015 before most states regain their pre-Recession employment levels. Is it possible for any region to beat those odds? Here is one way.

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Tagged: BR&E, California, Dean Barber, existing industries, job growth, jobs recovery, manufacturing, Midwest, Mt. Sterling Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, recession, South, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. job market, Wall Street Journal,