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Worker Health & Safety
What Apple isn’t telling us: Working conditions in Apple’s “robust, flexible supply chain”
by Elizabeth Grossman The morning after President Obama’s State of the Union speech that featured plans for reinvigorating U.S. manufacturing, Marketplace Morning Report asked former Obama Administration economic advisor Jared Bernstein why a company like Apple doesn’t create more jobs in the U.S. “Well,” replied Bernstein, “because the infrastructure for consumer electronics – particularly the […]