Electric vehicles and other clean-energy technologies have contributed to the recent growth in American manufacturing and offered new opportunities for modernization. Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, and Valerie Sheares Ashby, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, join Washington Post Live to assess the state of manufacturing, the workforce required to sustain its growth and how manufacturing can play a role in decarbonizing the economy.
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