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- President Clinton announces his compromise plan for continuing lumbering while saving the Northwest forests and creating jobs for displaced loggers.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Harold Janetzke recalls his career as a timekeeper and engineer at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. in Lansing, MI, from 1936 to 1975. He describes the 1937 strike that brought the UAW into REO, his move to engineering and attending Michigan State College. He says that the Great Depression devastated the Lansing community, but that World War II brought work back to the plant as REO converted from car to truck production. Janetzke's wife Eileen describes her job as a secretary at REO, meeting and marrying Harold, and working until late into her first pregnancy in 1943. They describe the heart break of the plant's closing in 1975, the loss of the pension and Harold going back to work for a few more years at Motor Wheel. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama addresses the nation on the consequences the stalemate in Congress could have on the stability of the U.S. economy. He speaks about the breakdown of negotiations with Republican Party representatives, suggesting that their inability to recognize the magnitude of the potential default has placed the country in jeopardy. Obama makes his remarks eight days before the country will exhaust its available cash and be unable to pay its debt to bond holders, make payrolls, or fund government departments.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama visits Applied Materials in Austin, Texas to announce a competition to establish three new Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. Obama talks about how the Austin area has become a hub for innovation, job creation and high-tech companies.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-05-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- A Michigan State University faculty panel discusses "Confronting Wilderness: Human Interactions with Nature". Panelists look at the concept of wilderness as a conflict with nature shifting to a concept of preservation, conservation and resource and recreation management. They recognize the human need for wilderness as being at odds with a desire to spread across the land, and the norm of justifying preservation on economic terms rather than aesthetic considerations. Dr. Jackson-Elmoore convenes the session and moderates questions from the audience. Part of the series "Sharper Focus/Wider Lens" sponsored by the the following MSU departments and colleges: the Honors College, Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Religious Studies, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-01-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden point to the surging American auto industry as an example of economic recovery, during a visit to a Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, Indiana. Biden describes the benefits of the plant to all the residents of Kokomo and talks about job creation, before introducing the President. Obama talks about retaining jobs, investing in new industries, tax cuts for working people, and Kokomo’s automotive history.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood hold a press conference to discuss the high-speed rail project being installed across America. The leaders speak on the benefits of the project; creating jobs, advancing the transportation system, promoting clean energy, and decreasing dependency on foreign oil.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-04-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Eisenhower talks about Secretary of Agriculture Benson and the farm problem.
- Date Issued:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama speaks about the U.S. economy, invoking Theodore Roosevelt's "square deal" populism and challenging the Republican belief in trickle-down economic theory. Speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt's speech, Obama says trickle-down speaks to individualism but "has never worked" and that the nation is at "a make-or-break moment for the middle class." He also promotes his economic priorities, including the extension and expansion of Social Security payroll tax cuts, and says a strong economy starts with education.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-12-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein delivers a talk entitled, "When good jobs go bad: globalization, de-Unionization and declining labor standards in the North American auto industry". Rothstein compares three General Motors auto plants around the world while talking about the changing nature of jobs and the impact on work in the auto industry in the face of a globalization of the manufacturing economy. He describes good auto industry jobs which provide access to the middle class, but says that these jobs are getting steadily worse. He calls for an international labor standards structure to protect workers. A question and answer session concludes the session. Rothstein is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and the Lansing Stewardship Community/Motorcities - The Automobile National Heritage Area. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection