Repeal of Obamacare seen hurting US job engine

New York

FROM Akron to Youngstown and Canton to Cleveland, as in cities and towns across the US, workers who once walked out of factories at the end of each shift now stream out of hospitals.

While manufacturing employment has fallen nearly 40 per cent in northeastern Ohio since 2000, the number of healthcare jobs in the region has jumped more than 30 per cent over the same period. In Akron, the onetime rubber capital of the world, only one of the city's 10 largest employers still makes tyres. Three are hospitals.