White House Names Manufacturing Adviser

White House Names Manufacturing Adviser
By Derrick Henry
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President Obama has named Ron Bloom as the administration’s senior counselor for manufacturing policy, the White House said Sunday night. The announcement came ahead of Mr. Obama’s planned remarks at the A.F.L.-C.I.O.’s annual Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati.

Since February, Mr. Bloom has been a senior adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He sits on the president’s automotive industry task force. The White House said Mr. Bloom would continue that position and would expand his role to coordinate the administration’s manufacturing policy with the Commerce, Treasury, Energy and Labor departments.

The White House said Mr. Bloom would work with the National Economic Council to help lead policy development and strategic planning for “the president’s agenda to revitalize the manufacturing sector.”

“Ron has the knowledge and experience necessary to lead the way in creating the good-paying manufacturing jobs of the future,” Mr. Obama said in a statement released Sunday night. He cited the first expansion in the country’s manufacturing sector in 18 months as an early sign of economic recovery and part of his reasoning in naming Mr. Bloom to his new position.

The Institute for Supply Management’s survey of factories and industry had been edging higher this spring, as the pace of economic declines began to level off. In August, the group’s manufacturing index turned positive, rising to 52.9, from 48.9 in July.

A reading above 50 indicates expansion and growth; a number below 50 means economic contraction.


Before he joined the Treasury Department, Mr. Bloom was a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers union. Before that, he was a founding partner in Keilin and Bloom, an investment banking firm.

Mr. Bloom is traveling to Cincinnati with Mr. Obama, who is expected to talk at the picnic about Mr. Bloom’s position as well as the health care issue. Organized labor is an important constituency for Mr. Obama.

On Wednesday, Mr. Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech to Congress and the nation about his efforts to overhaul health care.


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Hopefully he will stand-up for American workers and find ways to bring real jobs back to our soil.

administrator. as bad as W fuck'd everything up I'm surprised there aren't thousands of 'Czars' needed to straighten things out.

How quaint! I hope we get a drive in movie Czar and a car hop czar, too.

Manufacturing is so...fifties. What we need now, as all economists will tell you, is more money handlers!

-90% Jimmy

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