Proclamation for Minnesota Manufacturer's Week~ ~ ~ ~~
~~~Jc~, The manufacturing companies employ one out of every seven
workers in Minnesota -over 342,000 people; and
~~?tt~R~, Manufacturing employees earn about 17 percent more than other
Minnesota private sector employees; and
~~?tt~, It has the largest total payroll of any business sector in Minnesota;
17.3 percent of the overall wages paid are in the manufacturing industry; and
~~~tt~d, Minnesota produces $33.9 billion of manufactured good for
Minnesota's economy, the largest share (13.3 percent) of gross domestic
product; and
~~?t!~d, Manufactured exports brought over $16.2 billion into the Minnesota
economy in 2007;
!!~GG~, ~GtPJ7~~.4~, ~e G~` ~P~~C~uP,~ that the Hopkins City Council does
hereby proclaim the week of October 20 -October 24, 2008 to be:
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In the City of Hopkins, and does also encourage all citizens to participate in the
activities associated with Minnesota Manufacturer's Week.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of
the City of Hopkins to be affixed this twentieth day of October, two thousand and
eight.
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