Amgen chief tells Trump the biotech giant will hire 1,600 workers

The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 1, 2017 | Melody Petersen

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Amgen Chief Executive Robert Bradway told President Trump on Tuesday that the company would soon be adding 1,600 jobs.

The news of hiring by the Southern California biotech giant came as the president met with a group of pharmaceutical executives at the White House, where he told them their pricing “has been astronomical.”

“You folks have done a very great job over the years,” Trump told the executives, “but we have to get the prices down.”

Kristen Davis, an Amgen spokeswoman, confirmed that the Thousand Oaks company plans to hire 1,600 skilled workers across the U.S. this year....