
The Power of a Small Factory: Emerging Weapons in Fight Against Poverty
BALTIMORE — James Branch’s life seemed destined to follow a familiar arc in the streets that surround the Marlin Steel factory, where he bends metal from sunrise until near dark.
He fathered a child while in high school, dropped out,…

American Made Cell Phone: Is Apple Considering A Made in USA iPhone?
The world’s largest contract assembler of consumer electronics, including the Apple iPhone, says it’s in talks to invest in a US assembly, responding to Trump’s tweets to bring jobs home.
Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest…

How Can Trump Stop Companies From Offshoring Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll personally call every company in America that plans to ship jobs overseas and ask them to reconsider.
But there are ways to stop American companies from offshoring jobs that don’t involve the U.S.…

Reshoring: More Companies See Advantage to Manufacturing in the USA
It began as a ripple and is becoming a powerful wave. I’m talking about the reverse migration of manufacturing from China to the U.S.A. — known as reshoring — that appears to be gaining momentum.
At first, the evidence was primarily…

Tell Congress: Stop China’s Buying Spree of U.S. Companies
TAKE ACTION TODAY! Instructions on how to contact your local representatives are below.
Join The Alliance For American Manufacturing and Tell Congress to stop China’s buying spree of U.S. companies. Our national security is at risk.
China’s…

Carrier Gets Tax Breaks, But Still Sending 1,300 Jobs To Mexico
Indiana state officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks to encourage the company to keep at least 1,069 jobs at its Carrier unit in Indianapolis, Carrier and the state said on Thursday.
President-elect…

Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S.A
From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move over 2,000 of them from Indiana…