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Silicon Valley Could Be Poster Child For Job Creation

Silicon Valley Could Be Poster Child For Job Creation
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Director of Content Strategy, HuffPost Creative Labs

This May 11, 2012, photo shows a sign is shown at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Silicon Valley, it turns out, doesnt revolve around the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga. Instead, the optimism in Silicon Valley can be seen in a variety of ways in this area that covers roughly 40 miles from San Jose to San Francisco (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
This May 11, 2012, photo shows a sign is shown at the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Silicon Valley, it turns out, doesnt revolve around the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga. Instead, the optimism in Silicon Valley can be seen in a variety of ways in this area that covers roughly 40 miles from San Jose to San Francisco (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- President Obama singled out Cupertino-based Apple in his State of the Union address Tuesday night for shifting manufacturing back to the United States. It's part of a growing trend that is starting to show up across Silicon Valley.

"This year, Apple will start making Macs in America again," President Obama said. And, that comment instantly turned Apple CEO Tim Cook into a poster child for bringing back manufacturing to the U.S. from China. However, the return of manufacturing in Silicon Valley is already under way. 30,000 new jobs were created there last year. Semiconductor and semiconductor equipment manufacturing jobs grew four percent.

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