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Cut to Invest: Support the Designation of 20 "U.S. Manufacturing Universities"
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Atkinson, Robert D.; Ezell, Stephen – Brookings Institution, 2013
Congress should establish an initiative to designate 20 institutions of higher education as "U.S. Manufacturing Universities" as part of a needed push to strengthen the position of the United States in the increasingly innovation-driven global economy. In 1862, Congress passed the Morrill Act, which established land-grant colleges to…
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