“To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.” DoeJobsShareIndiaElsewhereBusiness SuccessManufacturingBangaloreCall Center Author:Steven Rattner
“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.” IdeasHelpingHomeJobsEnergyStarsCommonEconomyBillsChinaLocalsCommon SenseConstructionEfficiencyManufacturingBoostEnergy EfficiencyHomeownersOutsourced Author:Peter Welch
“I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.” PeopleYearsBelieveWellsEndsJobsI BelieveCan DoEconomyEconomicMiddleActivityCurrentsIrrelevantManufacturingGlobal EconomyGetting HighClusters Author:William J. Clinton
“To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.” NeedsHas BeensHardJobsOrderMillionsImagineEconomicBusyCurrentsDecadesManufacturingNew JobReinventingDownturnEconomic Downturn Author:Susan Hockfield
“We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.” PeopleJobsClassRichGrowingMiddleIndustryMiddle ClassRich PeopleManufacturingService Industry Author:Chris Hayes
“We will achieve North America energy independence by 2020, by taking full advantage of our oil, our gas, our coal, our renewables and our nuclear power. Abundant, inexpensive, domestic energy will not only create energy jobs, it will bring back manufacturing jobs.” JobsAmericaEnergyAchieveAdvantageIndependenceOilNuclearGasCoalManufacturingNorth AmericaNuclear PowerInexpensiveEnergy Independence Author:Mitt Romney