Susan Helper speaks on U.S. Department of Commerce manufacturing report released last week

U.S. manufacturing needs small businesses for growth
The Plain DealerSusan Helper, chief economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, visited campus to share highlights of a manufacturing report released last week. “We need small companies to innovate,” Helper said. “You can’t have a division of labor like we used to have where big companies just needed small companies to make stuff for them.”