A recent article by Ron Gower of the Times News listed the top ten employers in Carbon County in 1990, 2000, and 2024. Industry was doing fairly well in 1990. Five of the top ten, including two clothing factories, manufactured items. In 2000 seven of the top ten were manufacturers.
By 2024 the number of employers producing a product had dropped of the top ten. Three of the top ten were governments–Carbon County ranked 2nd, the state government was 8th, and the Palmerton Area School District was 10th. Three of the top ten were health-related, and one was recreational (Blue Mountain Resort). One top ten employer was agricultural–Little Leaf PA. It grows lettuce in huge greenhouses in the northern part of the county.
Manufacturing has either gone to “right to work for less” states or to other countries.
Manufacturing went mainly to China & Vietnam. Look at the made in labels on all you wear, eat from, etc.
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