In AFL-CIO Now, James Parks takes a look at AAM's new national poll and agrees that manufacturing is the key to revitalizing the U.S. economy: "A comprehensive industrial policy would include emphasis on a host of long-range actions to rebuild our manufacturing base, which has been decimated over the past few decades." Parks cites AAM Director Scott Paul, who says that one-third of American manufacturing plants have shut down in the past 10 years and that today only 1,000 U.S. factories employ more than 1,000 workers. The U.S. is also losing high-tech workers at a faster rate than traditional manufacturing jobs. Any wonder then that, as Parks says, "voters are deeply unhappy going into the 2010 elections and they are particularly upset over the loss of American manufacturing jobs and the lack of action by Congress." Read more on AAM's new poll.