Arizona Manufacturing at a Crossroads

Arizona's manufacturing industry is easy to overlook. The state doesn't have anything like a Detroit or Silicon Valley that is famous for making products. Arizona is better known for construction workers who make buildings.

Manufacturing workers don't dominate here. For every Arizona employee who makes a product, from computer chips to potato chips, there are 12 workers in retail, health-care services, insurance, banking, real estate and other services.

Read the full story by Betty Beard here.