"Manufacturing is the lifeblood of the United States. We gave up a lot of our power when we stopped making things. We must continue working on bringing the sexy back to manufacturing, and I have joined this crusade. Just because there aren't thousands of steelworkers in Cleveland today does not mean the craft is dying or dead. What we think of traditionally as manufacturing jobs has been redefined. The jobs our parents' generation had no longer exist. Products are more sophisticated, and the skill set required to make them is different. We have to get people behind the doors of manufacturing so that they are exposed to the many opportunities such a career presents. I was amazed to learn how many people in Cleveland had never heard of Alcoa and that it has produced products in the Harvard Avenue location since 1917! Some might be surprised to learn that Ohio is Boeing's largest supplier. In 2014, we worked with more than 300 businesses in the state, and our supplier/vendor purchases totaled $11.4 billion, supporting an estimated 385,000 direct and indirect jobs in Ohio."
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