Council on Competitiveness Releases U.S. Manufacturing Strategy at Landmark Summit

The Council on Competitiveness is pleased to present Make: An American Manufacturing Movement. We transmit this strategy to the President, members of Congress, governors and stakeholders across the country in business, academia and labor.

Ultimately, though, we are issuing a call to the American people with a renewed sense of urgency and resolve. Manufacturing is a cornerstone of American independence, economic prosperity and national security that we must not surrender.

Americans are makers—a nation of tinkerers, inventors, craftsmen and entrepreneurs. Our call for a robust manufacturing sector stems not from a nostalgic yearning for the past, but a clear-eyed determination to forge a dynamic future for Americans through a new era of production excellence. Manufacturing remains a driver of innovation and job creation, even as automation and technology make manufacturing more efficient. The United States must implement sound policies to grown the manufacturing sector.

We applaud the increased public and political attention given to manufacturing, though we remain deeply concerned that the United States has yet to understand and fully respond to the challenges affecting the American economy. America’s economic portfolio requires a healthy and growing manufacturing sector to tackle the grand macro-economic problems facing the country, like job creation, debt reduction and infrastructure investments.

 

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