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Although manufacturing sector may have shrunk in the US due to global competition; the effects of lower prices made several goods more affordable to the average person. Your argument of unemployment is only applicable to those whose jobs are lost as a direct result of this.
The unemployment situation in America is caused by the economic collapse > caused credit squeeze > caused by the housing bubble > caused by availability of sub-prime mortgage to the average man and surge in demand for housing finance & supply backed by money market funds.