“In December, Dan Luria, a labor economist who studies factory operations at Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, told Bloomberg that Apple’s Mac production would probably add 200 jobs. Michael Marks, ex-CEO of Flextronics, also estimated 200 jobs would be needed to make the Macs to Bloomberg,” Yarow reports. “That’s not exactly going to get the American economy firing on all cylinders, but we suppose it’s more about the symbolism, especially for a State of The Union address.”
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