Starbucks launches job creation fund

Mon

Oct 3 2011

08:10 am

By: R. Neal

Starbucks starts fund to spur U.S. job creation

Starbucks said every $5 donation to "Create Jobs for USA" will generate $35 in financing for local businesses. The fund will be seeded with a $5 million donation from the Starbucks Foundation.

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How about local candidates

Submitted by michael kaplan on Mon, 2011/10/03 - 8:39am.

How about local candidates supporting domestic jobs by ordering US-made T shirts? The latest is that Marshall Stair's shirts are made in Nicaragua. Not bad, still in this hemisphere ..

As usual, you step straight

Submitted by rikki on Mon, 2011/10/03 - 2:29pm.

As usual, you step straight into the disinformer's frame of reference when responding to them. Marshall Stair's latest campaign disclosure includes a $400 expense to Label Thirteen, a local small business owned by Jared Brewster, for T-shirts.

Yes, this is a screenprinting business, and the shirts were likely manufactured in Central America, as are pretty much all T-shirts in the post-NAFTA economy. I'm pretty sure Michael Kaplan stood with workers at the old Levis plant on Cherry St and is perfectly aware that little garment making takes place in the US. Maybe Kaplan can point us to a Tennessee-based T-shirt maker or otherwise explain why he is injecting misleading information about a local campaign into a thread about the national economy.

You didn't break his frame,

Submitted by rikki on Mon, 2011/10/03 - 6:51pm.

You didn't break his frame, you affirmed it. And breaking it is not as effective as moving to a different frame; that's what you seem to never realize.

The only thing you've said that is outside his frame is in your reply to bizgrrl, where you note how unlikely it is that any local campaign has purchased shirts that are American-made. What's not in his frame is the easily acquired fact that the shirts were purchased from a local screen printer.

I'm sure Kaplan will respond with proof that every other campaign has bought not only local screen printing but American sewing and American cotton. If he didn't have such proof, why would he single out Stair with his misleading claim?

So it sounds like all of

Submitted by Pam Strickland on Mon, 2011/10/03 - 11:32pm.

So it sounds like all of y'all need to take a quiet pill on this topic unless you've got somebody lined up whose willing to manufacture quality, inexpensive T-shirts in America that candidates can purchas to have silk-screened locally.

Don't let Pam scare you, Mr.

Submitted by rikki on Tue, 2011/10/04 - 11:05pm.

Don't let Pam scare you, Mr. Kaplan! You're still welcome to point to the campaign with US-made garments. There's still time to visit campaign meet-n-greets and see which local caterers or private hosts put Tennessee grapes on their nosh platters. It's muscadine season!