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Durham, N.C. — Vice President Joe Biden will visit Cree Inc. in Durham Thursday, his office announced.
Biden, who will be traveling with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, is expected to talk about how federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allowed the LED-maker to purchase new equipment and expand its work force.
Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) received $39 million in federal tax credits in January to boost production of high-efficiency lighting.
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How about doing some investigative reporting and post the cost per job and how many of these jobs were permanent?"
CollieDave, if you did some of your own investigating you'd learn that Cree is a profitable company that's creating jobs and paying taxes. It's been very profitable for me the past year as it's stock price has more than doubled.
March 17, 2010 3:57 p.m.
March 17, 2010 1:14 p.m.
How about doing some investigative reporting and post the cost per job and how many of these jobs were permanent?
March 17, 2010 12:56 p.m.
March 17, 2010 12:13 p.m.
WORK? WORK? WHAT IS WORK? I thought after Obama was elected I would not need to work anymore.
March 17, 2010 10:26 a.m.