Obama highlighting nation's manufacturing gains

AZ Central:  WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is putting a manufacturing focus on his revived economic message, calling attention to industrial gains that have helped restore some higher-wage jobs during the recovery from the Great Recession.

Obama was to visit a steel manufacturer Friday in Princeton, Indiana, as part of a new fall political campaign push to promote his pocketbook policies and to claim credit for the upturn in the economy. He's announcing a competition to create a manufacturing innovation institute concentrated on photonics, or the use of light in technology ranging from lasers to telecommunications.

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