It all started with a tweet from an SMU student to ABC news asking for help finding Made in America products for her dorm room. It seems that the college catalog for dorm shopping had NO products that were made in America. So the search began.
Diane Sawyer reported some amazing figures. If colleges and universities had Made in America products in the catalogs they provide the nearly 3 million new students entering college this year, a half million jobs would be created. $46 Billion dollars are spent each year to outfit new rooms. Over 800 colleges use this catalog and all the schools got money back for distributing the catalogs to incoming freshmen.
Will the colleges switch? Probably only if students and taxpayers insist! Why are we peddling foreign made products?
Good job ABC News for ferreting out this glaring problem. Good for SMU for agreeing to change. No one had asked. Therefore, no one knew.
