PRINTER'S NO. 1702

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

No.

343

Session of

2015

INTRODUCED BY WARD, FARNESE, GREENLEAF, DINNIMAN, MENSCH,

BARTOLOTTA, RAFFERTY, TEPLITZ, VULAKOVICH, COSTA, FONTANA,

BREWSTER, YUDICHAK, AUMENT, SABATINA AND HUTCHINSON,

industries, contributing $82 billion to the gross State product

each year, making this Commonwealth the eighth-largest

manufacturing state in the nation; and

WHEREAS, Manufacturing provides a family-sustaining average

wage of more than $57,000 to more than 570,000 direct employees

each year, infusing more than $32 billion in employee earnings

into this Commonwealth's economy each year; and

WHEREAS, More than 14,000 manufacturers Statewide helped to

fuel this Commonwealth's economy by contributing more than $959

million in wage taxes and $445 million in sales taxes to the

technical services and much-needed expertise to our small and

mid-sized manufacturing community Statewide in areas of

innovation, process improvement, reshoring and technology

acceleration; and

WHEREAS, Over the past 10 years, the work of the Industrial

Resource Centers has had positive impacts upon, and has created

or retained critical manufacturing jobs within, more than 3,200

manufacturing businesses in this Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, The United States Department of Commerce recently

verified that over the past 10 years Pennsylvania manufacturers

manufacturer investment in this Commonwealth and have positively

impacted more than 57,000 created or retained manufacturing

jobs; and

WHEREAS, The Industrial Resource Centers throughout this

Commonwealth represent a public-private partnership that looks

forward to continuing to leverage Federal, State and industrial

resources to further advance our manufacturing economy and

create manufacturing jobs well into the future; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the Senate designate April 13, 2016, as

"Industrial Resource Center Appreciation Day" in Pennsylvania