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Wisconsin Excels in Job Creation
Jobs, jobs, jobs. As political rhetoric1 intensifies2 in tough economic times, everybody’s talking about jobs and job creation.
A trip to the small Midwest state of Wisconsin might be instructive. It routinely finishes at or near the top in job creation, especially in the manufacturing sector3.
That’s the part of the economy - automobiles4, appliances, textiles, electronics - that has seen the steepest job losses.
But not in bustling5 Wisconsin, at least not to an alarming degree.
We’re not talking heavy industry or even the state’s famous cheesemaking. Rather, Wisconsin produces an endless assortment6 of products in little factories you see tucked among its green, manicured farms. Riding past, you may catch their names on a little sign, but have no clue what the places make.
They make things like the water jugs7 a delivery person hauls down our hall every few weeks. And not just the bottles, but also their pop-off tops, the metal cart that carries them, and the plastic cartons into which the bottles of water fit snugly8.
Renowned9 architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Racine, Wisconsin headquarters of the company that makes Johnson’s waxes. |
Curt10 Manufacturing in Eau Claire makes metal ball hitches11 for trailers. Great White Dental Lab in Lodi fashions enamel12 teeth called “crowns.” Universal Die & Stampings in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, makes battery caps.
And K & B Innovations in North Lake creates “Shrinky Dinks,” which are little plastic thingys that kids can color and then shrink in the oven.
And somebody, somewhere in the Badger13 State builds the vats14 and forms, and the big stirring paddles and conveyor belts without which there’d be no Wisconsin cheese.
We don’t pay much attention when these companies win an award, add workers, or come out with a new product.
But taken together, they’re a big part of the nation’s economic engine that people are always talking about.
1 rhetoric | |
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语 | |
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3 sector | |
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形 | |
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4 automobiles | |
n.汽车( automobile的名词复数 ) | |
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n.分类,各色俱备之物,聚集 | |
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7 jugs | |
(有柄及小口的)水壶( jug的名词复数 ) | |
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8 snugly | |
adv.紧贴地;贴身地;暖和舒适地;安适地 | |
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9 renowned | |
adj.著名的,有名望的,声誉鹊起的 | |
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adj.简短的,草率的 | |
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11 hitches | |
暂时的困难或问题( hitch的名词复数 ); 意外障碍; 急拉; 绳套 | |
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12 enamel | |
n.珐琅,搪瓷,瓷釉;(牙齿的)珐琅质 | |
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13 badger | |
v.一再烦扰,一再要求,纠缠 | |
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14 vats | |
varieties 变化,多样性,种类 | |
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