“We Don’t Produce Goods Here Anymore”

I noticed this quote in the New York Times:

“In sector after sector, we’ve lost our innovation edge because we don’t produce goods here anymore,” said Mitzi Montoya, dean of the college of technology and innovation at Arizona State University

I hear this a lot, that we don’t make things here anymore. But it’s flatly not true. It’s said as if it’s not an empirical fact that can be looked up.

The truth is that America is a manufacturing powerhouse. The difference is that far fewer Americans work in manufacturing — and that’s due precisely to our innovation.

Posted by on December 13th, 2012 at 11:28 pm


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