New Record In Waiters And Bartenders Masks First Manufacturing Drop In Over 2 Years Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/04/2015 11:09 -0400 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/first-drop-manufacturing-workers-over-2-years-offset-new-record-waiters-and-bartende Putting this all together, since the start of the Second Great Depression, the US economy has lost 1.4 million manufacturing workers, but has more than made up for this with the addition ff 1.5 million waiters and bartenders. www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015/08/waiters%20vs%20mfgers_0.jpg And there, in one chart, is your minimum-wage recovery. Of course there is more and with additional charts, too... visit the link above...