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Phoenix highlights TSMC investment, apprenticeship and bioscience growth to expand local workforce
Summary
Mayor Kate Gallego and Vice Mayor Anne O’Brien emphasized semiconductor and bioscience investments, including TSMC, a city-sponsored semiconductor apprenticeship program and plans for Innovation 27 as parts of a push to diversify Phoenix’s economy and create higher-wage jobs.
Mayor Kate Gallego said Phoenix has shifted its economy to attract advanced manufacturing and bioscience jobs, citing the city’s recruitment of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) as a cornerstone of that strategy.
"Today the world's state of the art semiconductors are manufactured right here in our city," Mayor Kate Gallego said, describing what she called a major foreign direct investment and stating that the original $12,000,000,000 investment had grown to $165,000,000,000.
Gallego said the city has worked to make the local workforce ready for semiconductor manufacturing, noting that Phoenix became the first city in the nation to officially sponsor a registered…
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