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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 10, 2014
Contacts:
Kristy Schantz, 202-758-3918, kkschantz@virginia.edu
Kim Curtis, 434-243-2985, kcurtis@virginia.edu
Summary Sentence:
UVa Miller Center Milstein CommissionTo Hold News Conference to Release Report on Creating Middle-Class Manufacturing Jobs June 13 in D.C.
Full Summary:
The Miller Center will hold a news conference Friday, June 13 at the National Press Club to release the Milstein Commission on New Manufacturing's report, offering innovative, non-partisan, actionable ideas on how to create middle-class manufacturing jobs.
The report is entitled Building a Nation of Makers: Six Ideas to Accelerate the Innovative Capacity of America's Manufacturing SMEs.
It offers six ideas on how to accelerate the innovative capacity of American manufacturing’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Ideas include providing a more flexible education system, certification programs, and access to financing and technology.
The news conference will take place in the First Amendment Lounge at the National Press Club, located at 529 14th St., NW. It will be live streamed at www.millercenter.org.
Milstein Commission
Milstein Commission -Jennifer Clark
Washington, D.C. -- A University of Virginia Miller Center commission, chaired by former Governors Haley Barbour and Evan Bayh, will hold a news conference Friday, June 13 at 9:30 am at the National Press Club to release a report offering innovative, non-partisan, actionable ideas on how to create middle-class manufacturing jobs.
The report is the first in a series that will focus on creating middle-class jobs. Separate commissions are examining job creation through entrepreneurship and infrastructure investment and will release reports later this year. The effort is part of the Milstein Symposium: Ideas for a New American Century, a Miller Center initiative that is bringing together policymakers, business and industry leaders, scholars, and journalists to define and advance ideas to help rebuild the American Dream.
The report will offer six ideas on how to accelerate the innovative capacity of American manufacturing’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Ideas include providing a more flexible education system, certification programs, and access to financing and technology.
Throughout U.S. history, manufacturing SMEs have been an engine of well-paying, middle-class jobs. Advanced technologies such as 3D printing, major shifts in global demand, and greater emphasis on customization are redefining manufacturing and creating significant growth potential for SMEs.
According to the 2010 Census, manufacturing SMEs employ 4.9-million workers. While overall manufacturing jobs dramatically declined from 1972 to 2010, the share of jobs provided by SMEs grew from 29 to 45 percent. SMEs were one of the few sectors of the U.S. economy to thrive amid the Great Recession.
Besides Barbour and Bayh, other members of the commission include:
The news conference will take place in the First Amendment Lounge at the National Press Club, located at 529 14th St., NW.
It will be live streamed at www.millercenter.org. Media watching the live stream can tweet questions to @Miller_Center or post them at facebook.com/millercenter.
The Milstein Symposium was created by the Miller Center and Howard P. Milstein, a businessman, entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. Support for the program is provided through the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation and Emigrant Bank.
More information is available at http://millercenter.org/conferences/2013/milstein.
