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MARCH 2018 I PCB007 MAGAZINE 79 Figure 2: Where reshored U.S. jobs are coming from, 2010-2016. expansion of a Michigan plant focused on building high-tech electric and autonomous vehicles along with the Lincoln Continental and Mustang. Dow Chemical Dow Chemical's Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris announced a new state-of-the-art facil- ity in Michigan that will add several hundred jobs to the 7,000 Dow employees already in the community. Trans-Lux The LED Jumbotron digital display manufac- turer is moving its China operations to Hazel- wood, Missouri, creating jobs and investing in the new facility. Sprint The telecommunications giant will create 50,000 new American jobs and invest $50 bil- lion in the U.S. economy, which started in 2017. General Motors Company The company recently issued a press release affirming its commitment to support the U.S. manufacturing industry with $1 billion of ad- staying here, but bringing business back. De- signers are spinning new designs, OEMs are re- investing in R&D, and manufacturing compa- nies across the nation are hiring again. And hiring full-time, high-paying skilled jobs. A re- cent CEO survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu ranked America second in the world for global manufacturing competitiveness in 2016, with a projection to pass China for the No. 1 spot by 2020 (Figure 3). The following list is just a snapshot of just how massive this "Made in America" rebirth is. Foxconn The contract manufacturing goliath will be spending $10 billion to build a 13,000- employee flat-screen manufacturing cam- pus in my home state of Wisconsin, with a second Wisconsin campus currently being negotiated. Ford On Jan. 3, 2017, Ford announced plans to cancel a new $1.6 billion plant planned in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The move saved ap- proximately 3,500 U.S. jobs, according to a Ford press release. Instead, 700 additional new jobs will be created from a $700 million