Apple has updated a Newsroom post today with the latest details on how it is growing US jobs. Specifically, the company purchased components from over 9,000 American vendors in 2018 and says it supported almost half a million domestic jobs.
The newsroom post from Apple highlights the Advanced Manufacturing Fund that was started last year.
The post also details some of the American employees that the initiative has impacted, like Johnny Jackson.
As for the US vendors Apple worked with last year, it spent $60B with 9,000 companies and supported 450,000 American jobs.
Apple also notes that the US jobs that it has “created and supported” have more that tripled in the last seven years.
Another individual highlight is of an Army veteran who works at Finisar and also mentors high school students about advanced manufacturing.
Other American vendors include Kentucky’s Corning who makes produces the display glass for iPhone and iPad, Cincinnati Test Systems who tests device water resistance, and Broadcom out of Colorado who makes wireless communication hardware.
The update to this Newsroom post comes after a NYT piece this morning that says Apple had to delay the launch of the Mac Pro in 2013 because of a lack of American screw vendors. Apple allegedly searched “for months” for a domestic company who could keep up with their needs before resorting to a Chinese vendor for the screws.
Check out the full Newsroom post on Apple’s growing contributions to the US economy here.
