Gina Raimondo Quotes
Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.
Raimondo, Gina. "Nabsys" Campaign Advertisement. Gina Raimondo for Governor, 2014.
Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.
Gina Marie Raimondo is an American politician and venture capitalist serving as the 40th and current United States Secretary of Commerce since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 75th and first female Governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021.