By: Mark Koba, CNBC
Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly.
Several large American firms, have announced they’re shifting some manufacturing operations back to the United States, mainly because of increasing production and energy costs overseas.
And since January of 2010, the United States has added 520,000 manufacturing jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are currently 12 million manufacturing jobs on record in the United States.
However, analysts say that catch-up mode is the new normal; that we’ll never go back to the glory days but there is hope for the future of US manufacturing.
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