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- President Obama announces a $500 million public-private partnership to aid the manufacturing industry. Obama discusses the U.S. economy and initiatives to help the middle class. He also criticizes the Republican budget proposal. Other topics include voting rights, campaign finance, and middle class economics. He answers questions from the audience. The townhall meeting is hosted by the City Club of Cleveland and held at the Global Center for Health Innovation, part of the Cleveland Convention Center complex.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Donald Trump talks about manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and asserts that his administration has created millions of jobs for American workers and that the unemployment rate in the U.S. is the lowest ever. Trump's comments are made after touring a showcase at the White House which featured American made products.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-07-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Obama speaks on manufacturing innovation in the US economy. Taking up initiatives outlined in his State of the Union address, Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes--one in Chicago and one in the Detroit area--as well as a competition for the first of four additional institutes that Obama claims will put America at the forefront of 21st Century manufacturing.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack H. Obama speaks to employees at the the Master Lock factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin about his plan to promote American manufacturing. Obama says that Master Lock is an example of a company that moved jobs back to the U.S. from China and it is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-02-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama talks about American manufacturing and the economy during a visit to the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Obama says he will continue working to implement the Affordable Care Act and commends Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich for expanding Medicaid and urges other Republican governors to put politics aside and do the same. He also praises ArcelorMittal as a global leader in advanced high-strength steel products and says they will help fuel an American manufacturing renaissance.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- 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
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- In this installment of "Western Michigan at Work," Dr. Willis Dunbar surveys the economic well being of cities around western Michigan, based upon reports from various local Chambers of Commerce. Chamber of Commerce members from Sturgis, Coldwater, Three Rivers, Greenville, Hastings, Ionia, and South Haven talk about the status of business in their communities and all report a general upswing and expansion in manufacturing and retail sales. Dunbar also highlights construction projects in Greenville and Hastings and reviews employment figures across the state.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-12-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Obama announces new steps with the private sector to strengthen the manufacturing sector, boost advanced manufacturing, and attract good jobs with good wages. He calls on Congress to pass an extension of long-term unemployment benefits. Held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-01-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks at the Johnson Controls advanced battery facility in Holland, Michigan. He talks about the role innovative technologies will play in helping automakers achieve fuel economy standards and uses the occasion to describe the revitalization of American manufacturing. Obama reminds the audience of the challenges which America faces, declares his frustration with political infighting and says, "There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics".
- Date Issued:
- 2011-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection