Mike Rogers: “Our median wage is now below the national average here [in…”

“You know, we kind of let atrophy our defense industrial based manufacturing here and it's cost us. We lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs just since 2018. And guess what happened. Almost direct correlation you can see that Our median wage is now below the national average here [in Michigan]. You lose 30,000 middle class jobs in manufacturing. We're going to pay a price. I'm going to get defense industrial industrial based manufacturing back in Michigan.” (04:53–05:00)

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