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Why Aren't US Companies Creating Jobs?

2,746 views · Published 23 August 2011 · 4:28 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: FORA.tv · 2011 · News & Politics

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Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro argues that the current business environment in the United States does not encourage companies to create jobs in America.

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Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, the U.S. trade association representing over 2,000 consumer electronics companies and owning and producing the continent's largest annual tradeshow, the International CES. He also is the author of the 2011 best-selling book The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.

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