High Oil Prices Brings Back Some US Jobs
195 views · Published 14 August 2008 · 2:39 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · News & Politics
In recent months Americans have felt the economic pressure caused by record high oil and gasoline prices in the U.S. But now there may be a positive benefit to that financial hardship: new jobs. In the past ten years, economists say an estimated four million manufacturing jobs have been lost in the U.S. because it was cheaper to make things overseas. But with the cost of energy and shipping escalating, some companies say "Made in the USA" is starting to make more economic sense. VOA's Mil Arcega reports.
