On the recordNovember 7, 1997
They will be delighted. And yet just in Connecticut, just Connecticut, manufacturing has increased. Connecticut manufacturing exports, $500 million more just during the first half of 1997 over the first half of 1996, $500 million, a half a billion dollars more in manufactured exports went out the door from Connecticut plants in just the first half of 1997. If you are expanding production at that rate, you are hiring people. And if you are selling abroad, your wages are higher than domestic companies. So in Connecticut, we are selling more abroad, the jobs we are creating in that sector, not all jobs. I absolutely acknowledge that, but more and more jobs are associated with exports and those jobs on average pay 16 percent more. So if you want your kids to do well, you want to live in a State that exports a lot so your kids can get into exporting industries so they can have the opportunity to have higher paying jobs and good livings.
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