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The fall of the dollar is not all bad. Manufacturers who are dependent on exports are seeing sales increase. Their products are more affordable overseas.
This comes, of course, after a long period in which U.S. manufacturers have been losing business to foreign competition. In the first few years of this decade alone, the country lost 3 million manufacturing jobs. Almost no place saw as much loss as Ohio.See the full content of this document
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Dollar's Fall Helps Ohio, but at a Price
Since then, however, manufacturing output has actually been growing faster than the national economy: 12.4 percent versus 10.8 percent...
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