Watch video of President Obama President Obama stressing the Make It In America plan to aid manufacturers, help create jobs here at home.
America’s manufacturing sector played a major role in propelling our economy to world leadership and helped to create the strongest middle class in history. Manufacturing means secure, well-paying, middle-class jobs. But our manufacturing decline—which hit particularly hard during the Bush Administration, when America lost nearly a third of its manufacturing jobs—is one of the reasons why middle-class families are finding it difficult to make it in America today. To confront this challenge, Democrats are working to enact the “Make It In America” agenda: a plan to rebuild American manufacturing and create well-paying jobs.
The “Make It In America” agenda is a plan to support job creation today and in the future by encouraging businesses to make products and innovate in the US and sell it to the world through strengthening our infrastructure and supporting investments in key areas like education and energy innovation. This effort builds on House Democrats' actions to create jobs and continue growing the economy and focuses on investing in key priorities while cutting wasteful spending.
Several Make It In America bills have already become law, cutting taxes and creating loans for small businesses, speeding up the patent process, lowering costs of raw materials, and ending tax loopholes that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas. Under Democratic leadership, the House also passed Make It In America legislation to support American clean energy firms, invest in job training partnerships, hold China accountable for the unfair currency manipulation that costs American jobs, and more. Democrats continue to seek ideas from business, labor, and individuals to add to the Make It In America agenda and intend to make it a key part of job-creating efforts over the next several years. When more products are made in America, more families can Make It In America, as well.
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