(photo: Amanda Rabinowitz/WKSU) Starbucks ordered 20,000 mugs from American Mug and Stein, one of the few remaining pottery factories in East Liverpool, Ohio. The factory has come close to going out of business many times, but the Starbucks order allowed it to double its workforce. The contract is part of Starbucks’ ongoing “Create Jobs for the USA” initiative. “There are hundreds of East Liverpools around the country today,” said Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. “These towns have been left for dead. And even though it’s more expensive to manufacture this mug in the U.S. than it would be in China or Korea or Mexico, this is what we need to do.” (via NPR)

(photo: Amanda Rabinowitz/WKSU)

Starbucks ordered 20,000 mugs from American Mug and Stein, one of the few remaining pottery factories in East Liverpool, Ohio. The factory has come close to going out of business many times, but the Starbucks order allowed it to double its workforce. The contract is part of Starbucks’ ongoing “Create Jobs for the USA” initiative.

“There are hundreds of East Liverpools around the country today,” said Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. “These towns have been left for dead. And even though it’s more expensive to manufacture this mug in the U.S. than it would be in China or Korea or Mexico, this is what we need to do.”

(via NPR)

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