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Chinese Company Moves Production To The U.S.

Suarez Manufacturing Industries is moving production to the United States from China - a reflection of the new lower-paying profile of the U.S. manufacturing sector that is looking more and more like that of Mexico, or China for that matter.

The Canton, Ohio factory will make portable heaters in a 200,000-square-foot building that was once a Hoover vacuum factory. The company expects to hire as many as 2,500 workers in the next 18 months, with just 110 positions are available now. But the jobs will pay as little as $7.50 an hour.

The Dispatch includes a Q&A with Mark Kvamme, the California venture capitalist who oversees job-creation efforts for Ohio Governor John Kasich.

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