Milwaukee companies signs of progress on transforming economy

Three Milwaukee area companies are representative of the impact that a suite of economic recovery and development bills have had across the country, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said during a stop Wednesday at Discovery World.

Granholm was in Milwaukee as part of a four-day swing through Michigan and Wisconsin to tout progress made in the Biden administration’s “Investing in America” initiative, a package of bills passed in late 2021 and early 2022 that aims to encourage investments in domestic manufacturing, accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy, and create new, well-paying jobs.

Granholm called the initiative “the new industrial revolution,” one that seeks to reverse the losses from years of manufacturing plant shut downs and offshoring, and position companies and workers to succeed in a high-tech, clean energy economy and, for the first time, prioritize activities that benefit low-income communities that have historically been shut out of economic development initiatives.