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America Is First in the World for Investment - and Getting Stronger

Penny Pritzker | U.S. Department of Commerce | Full Story

Right now, Hankook Tire, a company whose executives met with President Obama in Korea earlier this year, is investing in a new facility in Tennessee that will employ 1,800 Americans. And Novozymes, a bioinnovations company based in Denmark, is investing millions of dollars in a job-creating North Carolina research center. At the same time, American companies are bringing jobs back to the U.S.- like Ford which is committing to billions of dollars in new investment and more than 5,000 new U.S. jobs in 2014 alone.

Why is this significant?

 

Because according to a survey released this week, America is leading the world in attracting investment. And we are keeping our foot on the accelerator. 

Manufacturers seek improved worker training, apprenticeships

John Reid Blackwell | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Full Story

Virginia could benefit greatly from the resurgence in advanced, high-tech manufacturing in the U.S., but only with the right investments to train people for those jobs, several executives said Wednesday at a conference on the future of manufacturing.

 

Executives with two large companies that have operations in Virginia specifically endorsed the idea of opening an apprentice academy in the state to train people for skilled manufacturing work.