Alphapointe is a nonprofit in the Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, Missouri, that produces various American-made goods.
“We are the supplier of prescription bottles of the Department of Veterans Affairs,” said Reinhard Mabry, president and CEO of Alphapointe.
Ethan Whitehill is the president and chief strategy officer of Crux, a marketing agency in KCMO. He said that since the United States increased tariffs on products from around the world, more businesses and consumers are paying attention to American-made products.
“American-made implies American jobs, it means workforce development, it means local, economic impact, too,” he said. “So, I think there’s an awareness.”
That’s true at Alphapointe, where more than half the workforce is blind, according to Mabry.
“‘Made in America’ — that means people who are blind who are sitting on the sidelines getting an opportunity to get into the workforce, earn a living, provide for themselves and provide for their families,” Mabry said.
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