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In Rappanannock County, the payroll for the year for these service workers amounted to $480,000. As a proportion of the payroll for all local workers covered in the report, those in the service category received some 40.5 percent of the total. The National Bureau of Economic Research finds that “the United States is now a service economy in that it is the first nation in the history of the world in which more than half of the employed people are not involved in the production of food, clothing, housing and other tangr ole goods.” The shift to services, it holds has had a stabilizing effect on the economy as a whole. It has helped to cushion the decline in manufacturing employment caused by automation.
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