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      <h1 property="dc:title">Fact Sheet: The President’s Plan to Make America a Magnet for Jobs by Investing in Manufacturing</h1>
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      <p>President Obama is committed to making America a magnet for 
jobs and manufacturing so we continue to build things the rest of the 
world buys. After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our 
manufacturers have added about 500,000 over the past three. 
Manufacturing production has grown since the end of the recession at its
 fastest pace in over a decade.</p>
<p>The President’s plan builds on that momentum by investing in American
 manufacturing. The President has outlined a concrete agenda to train 
American workers for high-tech manufacturing jobs, end tax breaks to 
ship jobs overseas and make the U.S. more competitive, bring jobs back, 
and level the playing field for our workers by opening new markets for 
American-made products. </p>
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<li>
		<strong><u>Partnering with businesses and communities to invest in 
American-made technologies and American workers through a network of new
 Manufacturing Innovation Institutes</u></strong>: The President has 
proposed a one-time $1 billion investment to create a network of 15 
manufacturing innovation institutes across the country, and urges 
Congress to act on this proposal. But to make progress right away, he is
 also acting through executive authority to launch three new institutes,
 which are partnerships among business, universities and community 
colleges, and government, to develop and build manufacturing 
technologies and capabilities that will help U.S.-based manufacturers 
and workers create good jobs.    </li>
<li>
		<strong><u>Ending tax breaks to ship jobs overseas and making the U.S. more competitive</u>:</strong>
 To support our manufacturers and encourage companies to invest in the 
U.S., the President has proposed to reform our business tax code, 
lowering the rate for manufacturers to 25 percent, expanding and making 
permanent the research and development tax credit, and putting in place a
 global minimum tax to prevent a race to the bottom in corporate tax 
rates.</li>
<li>
		<strong><u>Bringing Jobs Back</u>:</strong> The President has proposed
 a new partnership with communities to attract manufacturers and their 
supply chains, especially to hard hit manufacturing towns. The President
 is also proposing to expand SelectUSA, a program designed to partner 
with our governors and mayors to bring in business investment from 
around the world, ensuring that America can compete globally and bring 
jobs and investment to our shores.</li>
<li>
		<strong><u>Leveling the playing field and opening markets for American-made products</u>:</strong>
 In addition to the President’s efforts to double exports, including 
through new steps to open markets in Asia and Europe to American-made 
goods, the President will continue to enforce trade laws to protect 
American workers from unfair trade practices and strengthen the 
Interagency Trade Enforcement Center launched last year.</li>
</ul>
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	<strong><em><u>The President’s Commitment to Revitalize American Manufacturing and Bring Jobs Back</u></em></strong></h2>
<p>In his State of the Union, the President outlined a comprehensive 
agenda to attract more jobs to our shores. As part of this effort, he is
 committed to investing in U.S. manufacturing:</p>
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<h3>
		<strong>Partnering with businesses and communities to invest in American-made technologies and American workers</strong></h3>
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<li>
		<strong>Transforming communities across the country into global centers of advanced manufacturing:</strong>
 To support investment in U.S. manufacturers’ competitiveness and 
accelerate innovation in manufacturing, the President is proposing a 
one-time, $1 billion investment to launch a network of 15 manufacturing 
innovation institutes across the country. Leveraging the strengths of a 
particular region, each institute will bring together companies, 
universities and community colleges, and government to co-invest in the 
development of world-leading manufacturing technologies and capabilities
 that U.S.-based manufacturers can apply in production. In August 2012, 
the Administration launched a pilot institute in Youngstown, Ohio with a
 $45 million funding commitment from five Federal agencies, led by the 
Department of Defense. The winning partnership of firms and universities
 from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia was one of twelve teams that
 applied.
<ul>
<li>
				<u>While the President will continue to push Congress to act on his 
broader proposal, he will take executive action to launch three new 
manufacturing innovation institutes in 2013</u>: To build on the success
 of a pilot institute, the President announced a plan to launch three 
new manufacturing innovation institutes this year, a co-investment 
between Federal agencies, led by the Departments of Defense and Energy, 
and the private sector, with an initial focus on manufacturing 
technologies that also address critical national security and energy 
needs.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
		<strong>Creating a Community College to Career Fund</strong><strong>:</strong>
 Co-administered by the Department of Labor and the Department of 
Education, this Fund will help forge new partnerships between community 
colleges and businesses to train two million workers for good-paying 
jobs in high-growth and high-demand industries, including advanced 
manufacturing. These investments will give more community colleges the 
resources they need to become community career centers where people 
learn skills that local manufacturers are looking for now, and ensure 
that employers can find the skilled workers they need and workers are 
gaining credentials to build strong careers.</li>
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		<strong>Ending Tax Breaks to Ship Jobs Overseas and Making the U.S. more competitive</strong></h3>
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<li>
			<strong>Making the U.S. more competitive for manufacturing by reforming our tax code: </strong>To
 encourage innovation and investment in the U.S. as part of the 
President’s broader commitment to business tax reform, the President is 
proposing to lower tax rates for manufacturers to 25 percent, expand and
 make permanent the research and development tax credit, put in place an
 “offshoring tax” that would set a minimum tax on offshore earnings to 
prevent a race to the bottom in corporate tax rates, and extend and 
enhance key incentives to invest in U.S. clean energy through a 
permanent, refundable production tax credit and a reauthorization of the
 Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit that provides an incentive for
 clean energy manufacturing at home.</li>
</ul>
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<li>
		<strong>Strengthening manufacturing supply chains through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership</strong><strong>:</strong>
 The Department of Commerce’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) 
provides a range of business services to small manufacturers and is 
enhancing the program to help companies focus on technology transition 
which requires deep supply chain expertise. The President’s Budget will 
propose a $25 million increase to launch Manufacturing Technology 
Acceleration Centers (MTACs), which will be industry-specific centers 
that can serve as a coordination point within key supply chains. The 
Administration is also announcing plans to pilot two new centers in 2013
 using existing resources.</li>
</ul>
<h3>
	<strong>Bringing Jobs Back</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>
		<strong>Investing in manufacturing communities and bringing jobs back:</strong>
 Today, we are better positioned to attract new manufacturing investment
 in the U.S. and bring jobs back. But some communities are still 
hard-hit by the recession, particularly after closure of factories in 
places like Detroit, Michigan and Rochester, New York. The President is 
announcing new steps to partner with and help strengthen communities, 
including:
<ul>
<li>
				<u>Launching an “Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership”</u>:
 The President is directing Federal agencies to provide coordinated 
assistance to manufacturing communities through a new partnership 
designed to strengthen communities’ ability to attract investment. To 
support the Partnership, the President’s Budget will propose $113 
million to provide targeted financial assistance for about five 
manufacturing communities while leveraging non-Federal funds on a 2 to 1
 matching basis to co-invest in state of the art infrastructure projects
 and research facilities. These efforts will aim to attract 
manufacturers and their supply chain of local parts innovators, 
producers, and distributors, creating new jobs and strengthening the 
local economy. In addition, the Partnership, through multiple Federal 
agencies, will provide technical support to redevelop manufacturing 
communities that have had major plant closings, in partnership with 
local leaders, workers, and businesses.</li>
<li>
				<u>Expanding Federal efforts to attract investment to the U.S.</u>: 
In 2011, the President launched SelectUSA at the Department of Commerce,
 creating the first Federal effort to actively attract business 
investment in the United States. To help our governors and mayors 
compete with foreign countries, the President will propose in his Budget
 to significantly expand SelectUSA. The Administration will host a 
SelectUSA Investment Summit this year, matching businesses from around 
the world with local leaders to attract jobs and investment to our 
shores.</li>
<li>
				<u>Proposing a Manufacturing Communities Tax Credit</u>: The 
President is proposing incentives for communities facing concentrated 
job losses – particularly hard-hit manufacturing communities – to help 
attract new investment and jobs. The incentives will help prevent the 
downward spiral that can occur following mass layoff events.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div>
<h3>
		<strong>Leveling the playing field and opening markets for American-made products</strong></h3>
</div>
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<li>
		<strong>Boosting U.S. exports:</strong> The President is committed to 
doubling American exports and has taken steps to expand market access 
for American-made products through trade agreements with South Korea, 
Columbia, and Panama. To boost exports, the President will launch talks 
on a comprehensive trade agreement with the European Union with the goal
 of promoting free and fair trade across the Atlantic to support 
millions of good-paying American jobs, and will complete the 
Trans-Pacific Partnership.</li>
<li>
		<strong>Strengthening our capabilities to enforce trade laws and support American workers: </strong>The
 President has aggressively enforced trade rules to ensure that American
 workers are competing on a level playing field with firms from around 
the world, doubling the rate of WTO challenges against China compared to
 the previous Administration, and applying the “Section 421” against 
China to address a surge in Chinese tires. Last year, the President 
launched an Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC) with resources 
devoted exclusively to ensuring our trading partners are playing by the 
rules, and he is calling for dedicated funds beyond existing resources 
to provide the support needed by ITEC to ensure American workers are 
competing on a level playing field .</li>
<li>
		<strong>Ensuring U.S. leadership in clean energy and advanced vehicle manufacturing: </strong>Building
 on the President’s historic investments in clean energy and the fuel 
efficiency standards put in place through 2025, the Obama Administration
 has proposed a comprehensive approach to advanced vehicle 
manufacturing, including incentives for consumers and businesses to 
lower the cost of advanced vehicles, investments in partnership with 
communities to address the local barriers to deployment of advanced 
vehicles at critical mass, and increased investments in advanced vehicle
 technologies through the Department of Energy’s EV Everywhere grand 
challenge. The President will also continue to call on Congress to 
reauthorize the successful and oversubscribed 48C Advanced Energy 
Manufacturing Tax Credit.  </li>
<li>
		<strong>Supporting innovative, advanced manufacturing technologies through increased Federal R&D: </strong>The
 President’s Budget will propose increases in key advanced manufacturing
 R&D programs across Federal agencies. Investments include 
supporting innovative manufacturing processes that dramatically reduce 
energy use and strengthening investments in platform technologies like 
nano-manufacturing, bio-manufacturing, robotics through the National 
Robotics Initiative, advanced materials through the Materials Genome 
Initiative, and defense technologies to fundamentally change the way we 
build things and dramatically reduce the time from design to production.</li>
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