Wisconsin Examiner
American Jobs Plan presents opportunity to rebuild Wisconsinâs manufacturing, labor, environmental legacy
FLINT, MI - OCTOBER 13: United Auto Workers union members and their families rally near the General Motors Flint Assembly plant on Solidarity Sunday on October 13, 2019 (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
It seems like these days you canât throw a rock without hitting a vacant manufacturing facility in Wisconsin. For generations, manufacturing jobs kept money in the wallets and food on the tables of working families across the state. But in recent years that legacy has been threatened. Offshoring, a lack of government investment and weak procurement policies to ensure weâre using American materials to build up our infrastructure have been chipping away at our stateâs economy and at the very livelihoods of blue collar Wisconsinites in communities from Milwaukee to La Crosse.