Gutierrez 07 quantifies that Gutierrez, Catalina, et al. Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction? The World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network Poverty Reduction and Development Effectiveness Department. 2007,
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The size of these effects is important: a 1 percent employment-intensive growth in agriculture raises the headcount poverty by around 6.5 percent (the headcount poverty goes from 45 percent to 48 percent) to 9 percent. A 1 percentemployment-intensivegrowthin manufacturing decreases poverty by 5percent to7 percent. Productivityintensive growth in agriculture reduces poverty by 4 percent to 9 percent.
And, manufacturing is key to competition Weisgerber 21 Marcus Weisgerber "US manufacturing decline is hurting national security, report warns", https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/11/us-manufacturing-decline-is-hurting-national-security-report-warns/ //yang
Unless the federal government helps train two million extra workers by 2030 and spends $100 billion annually to improve American manufacturing, the U.S. economy may become unable to keep up with China’s national-security threats, a new think tank report warns. The findings of a study conducted by the conservative Ronald Reagan Institute arrive as supply chain meltdowns highlight the U.S. reliance on foreign-made items and the tired American infrastructure that brings them from ports to domestic assembly lines. “Our declining manufacturingcompetitiveness leaves America’s economic infrastructure and defense capabilities underprepared for geopolitical events, global competition, and even major armed conflict,” the report states. “To revive our manufacturing base and maintain our edge as the world’s leading economy, the United States must employ innovative thinking from both the public and private sectors.”
