July 30, 2015 8:00 PM | The Made in America Movement

The Not So COOL Reason You May Soon Not Know Where Your Steak Came From

The Not So COOL Reason You Won’t Know Where Your Steak Came From

Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—mad cow disease—have been reported in Brazil as recently as 2014. When a cow was found to have died from the neurogenerative disease, which humans can contract by eating meat from sick animals, in…

Education, Innovation, Jobs, STEM, Sustainability, Technology

Project TEACH – A STEM Workshop For KIDS

A group is seeking your help! Project TEACH will plant the seed of possibilities within disadvantaged and/or underrepresented students, igniting change within the Bronx Community. These changes will create future professional leaders within…

The Reshoring Initiative and Walmart Launch Effort to Help Suppliers Reshore

Domestic Sourcing, Economy, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Reshoring, Sourcing, Walmart

Reshoring Initiative and Walmart Helping Suppliers Reshore

The Reshoring Initiative recently announced a program in partnership with Walmart to help companies manufacture more consumer products in the United States. Walmart has committed to increase its U.S. purchases by $50 billion annually by…

Currency Manipulation, Economy, Factory Closings, Jobs, Made in USA, Manufacturing, Trade Deficit

U.S. Factories Still Haven’t Recovered From The Recession

It took less than a year for America's factory output to rebound from the 1991 recession. It took 3½ years to bounce back from the 2001 recession. Now, six years clear of the Great Recession, manufacturing output still hasn't returned to…

Currency Manipulation, Economy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Trade Deficit

The Trade Deficit is Responsible for Manufacturing Job Loss

Growing trade deficit and the collapse of manufacturing output following the Great Recession are directly responsible for the loss of 5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs that occurred between 2000 and 2014. As the figure below shows, manufacturing…

Consumer Products, Food Products, Seafood, Slave Labor

Costco Faces Lawsuit Over Sale of Prawns Allegedly Farmed By Slave Labor

Costco Wholesale Corp. customer sued the retailer on allegations that it knowingly sold frozen prawns that were the product of slave labor. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, alleges…

Food Products, Seafood, Slave Labor

Slave Labor Producing Prawns for Supermarkets in USA

Slave labor forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal. A six-month…

Chinese Made Cars Arrive in U.S. Showrooms, Will U.S. Get Buick Made in China?

Automotive, Manufacturing

Is the U.S. Ready for a Buick Made in China?

In 2013, General Motors polled some U.S. Buick dealers about their volume and model-mix expectations for a new vehicle: a compact crossover that has since been launched in China as the Buick Envision. It's two years later and there's…

Automotive, Manufacturing

UAW to Address Possible China-Made Buick Import

The UAW said Tuesday it plans to address during contract negotiations the speculation that General Motors Co. is considering importing a Buick SUV to the U.S. from China. “After the sacrifices made by U.S. taxpayers and the U.S. workforce…

Automotive

Could the Ford Taurus be Imported From China?

The Ford Taurus, once the flagship in Ford’s range, apparently has fallen on hard times. Sales for the Ford Taurus are down 28 percent through July, it hasn’t done much to outrun its perception as a perennial fleet queen and police fleet…