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President Obama on Wednesday called on Congress to help create “global centers” of high-tech jobs around the country as part of a larger economic plan he says will spur American manufacturing and expand the American middle class.
After touring the Linamar auto parts factory here, Obama told a crowd of workers and customers that the Canadian company’s decision to open this facility is part of a migration of jobs to the U.S. that the federal government should try to support.
“Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. Intel is opening its most advanced plant here in the United States,” Obama said in a speech on the factory floor. “So we’re seeing this trend of what we call in-sourcing.”
The president’s trip to North Carolina was his first on a three-day tour to sell some of the proposals outlined in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. The address touched on a broad range of subjects, including climate change, Medicare reform and gun control. But his post-speech tour was aimed at promoting his newly repackage economic plan, which Obama said was the core of his effort to revitalize the middle class after years of falling wages and rising cost of living.
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