
<strong>Paper Title</strong><br>
Covid Impacts upon us Manufacturing Employees in 2020 and 2021<br>
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<strong>Abstract</strong><br>
The U.S. Department of Census released data from their 2021 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM). The
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) provides sample estimates of statistics for all manufacturing establishments. The
ASM provides the best current measure of current U.S. manufacturing industry outputs, inputs, and operating status. Based
upon analysis of the data from 2018, using 2019 as a base year since it was before the start of the pandemic, percentage
changes for 2020 and 2021 were calculated in the manufacturing data. Analysis of these percentage changes over this time
period show that many widely held beliefs about the severe negative impact on manufacturing activity and employees in
2020 and 2021 are not supported by the actual data. A few beliefs were actually supported based upon analysis of these
percentage changes.
Keywords - A U.S. Manufacturing Output Changes, Covid impacts on U.S. Manufacturing, U.S. Manufacturing Employee