Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh took the opportunity during a visit to Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, to highlight how the proposed Bipartisan Innovation Act will advance the nation’s global leadership in future technologies.
Walsh visited the college April 29, where he said the act also builds on historic investments in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, according to a May 2 news release.
“In partnership with institutions like Lorain County Community College, the Biden-Harris administration is committed to investing in the next generation, through innovative collaboration with employers, institutions and industry partners,” Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said in the release.
He said the Bipartisan Innovation Act would build a skilled workforce and accelerate growth by manufacturing products in the U.S., the release reported.
“We need to make more in America,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said in the release. “For too long, bad trade and tax policy has encouraged corporations to send jobs – and the skills and training that go with them – overseas to our foreign competitors and to pay even lower wages.”
Lorain County Community College, NextFlex and Boeing shouldn’t have to be on their own in fighting this trend, Brown said, the release reported.
“We must get a strong innovation and competition bill to the President's desk immediately to bring our supply chains back to places like Lorain, and to invest in our country's greatest asset: the talent of American workers,” he said in the release.
