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Manufacturing America's Future|America's Business: March 23, 2009 Episode
Dear Subscribers: This week on America’s Business with Mike Hambrick…We bring you our interview with Congressman Vern Ehlers (R-MI). Many interesting and topical interviews on this week’s edition of America’s Business, here is who’s featured. The Death Tax is making a stealthy return; hidden in the footnotes of President Obama’s budget proposal. Here to talk about the damage this tax could cause is Dick Patten, President of the American Family Business Institute. The NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have teamed up with The National Center for Education and the Economy to release a new commission entitled “Tough Choices or Tough Time”, which emphasizes the importance of having skilled workers for the future. Joining the program to discuss this report is Mark Tucker, President and CEO of The National Center for Education and the Economy. Another group pushing for strong skills for the U.S.’s future workers is the Manufacturing Institute. They have worked with the NAM to develop a new Manufacturing Skills Certification Program. Here to explain how this works is Martin Scaglione, President and COO of the ACT, who was also involved in developing this new program. When we first spoke to the Shop Rats, they were an exciting organization ready to get going and start getting kids excited about manufacturing. That was over 2 years ago and a lot of progress has been made since then. Returning to the program is founder Chris Salow to tell us what the Shop Rats have been up and to talk about an exciting new “Wheelie Car” competition that is coming up. Wrapping up the program is Jim Harbour, author of the new book, “Factory Man.” Jim’s book gives an inside look at the American car manufacturing scene being a former auto industry executive. Jim feels American cars have unfairly been given a bad reputation based on the cars it produced in the 1980’s. And as always, we’ll close the program with the President of the National Association of Manufacturers, Governor John Engler, and the “Last Word” For more about "America's Business" and to listen to the program online, please visit www.americasbusiness.org
[ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST ]
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