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in the last quarter century, we've lost two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs in Michigan

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Mike Rogers, at Michigan U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WOOD TV8)

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Why we checked itSpecific figure about manufacturing job losses in Michigan over 25 years — verifiable against Bureau of Labor Statistics data
What we foundMichigan did lose manufacturing jobs over the last quarter century, but the actual figure of roughly 200,000–244,000+ is larger than the claim implies — '200,000' appears to be a conservative floor, not an exaggeration, making this technically an understatement rather than an overstatement of the scale, though the directional claim is accurate.
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