“Bidenomics is working:” During Visit to Wisconsin, Vice President Harris Highlights Administration’s Continued Efforts to Invest in High-Speed Internet, Boost Domestic Manufacturing, and Create Jobs Across America
Yesterday’s visit coincides with Nokia announcing the manufacturing of broadband network electronics products in the U.S., which will add up to 200 new jobs at Sanmina Corporation’s facility in Kenosha County
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin – Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the Biden-Harris Administration’s continued efforts to invest in high-speed Internet, boost domestic manufacturing, and create jobs in communities across America during a visit to Nokia and Sanmina Corporation in Kenosha County. Her visit alongside Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin coincided with Nokia announcing the manufacturing of broadband network electronics products in the U.S., which will add up to 200 new jobs at Sanmina Corporation’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pleasant Prairie.
“I am proud to announce that Nokia, a company based in Finland, will expand this factory here in Kenosha and hire up to 200 new employees. They will build the parts that are needed to connect people with high-speed Internet,” said Vice President Harris. “Bidenomics is working. Since we took office, we have created more than 13 million jobs – that’s more jobs created in two and a half years than any administration has created in four. Today, unemployment remains near record lows, inflation has fallen 12 months in a row, wages are up, and small businesses are thriving.”
The Vice President also highlighted how the Biden-Harris Administration is continuing to deliver on its commitment to connect everyone in America to affordable, reliable, and high-speed internet by the end of the decade. Their historic Internet For All initiative is investing billions of dollars to bring service to every community, helping to create good-paying manufacturing jobs, and revitalizing the domestic broadband manufacturing industry.
“When President Biden and I took office, 800,000 people in Wisconsin and 30 million people across our country did not have access to high-speed Internet – and so, we decided to do something about it,” said Vice President Harris. “We invested $65 billion to lower the cost of high-speed Internet plans and to build thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable so that every family in America can afford to have access to high-speed Internet.”
The Vice President’s trip to Wisconsin came on the eve of her visit to the retail village of Sycamore & Oak in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. where she will deliver remarks about Jobs Day today at 12:00 p.m. ET. She will also highlight the continued transformative impacts of Bidenomics and announce funding that will expand access to capital for small businesses and help support historically underserved entrepreneurs.
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