Advocates of a strong U.S. manufacturing industry are heartened by the prospects of more companies returning well-paying factory jobs to our shores. Boston Consulting Group forecasts the “reshoring” trend could create 2 million to 3 million jobs by the end of the decade — 600,000 to 1 million in factories and the rest in support […]
America is coming apart. For most of our nation’s history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. “The more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, the great […]
Luzerne County (PA) Manufacturer to Expand, Create 80 New Jobs HARRISBURG, Pa., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ Governor Tom Corbett announced today that Certech Inc., a manufacturer of ceramic cores, will create 80 new jobs and retain 185 positions through consolidating an out-of-state operation to its Luzerne County facility.”My administration is committed to creating […]
The Return of ‘Made in America’ 4/11/2012 | Written By Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money For all our problems, the stage is set for a renaissance of US manufacturing. That’s largely because our dollars are worth less and our pay is shrinking. Clearly, something’s still wrong with the economy. By the metrics that matter to most people, […]
Last week we asked if there was anyone interested in donating their time and/or skills to The Made in America Movement.Santi Acosta from SantiDesign came forward and donated his time. He offered to help us come up with a LOGO for our Facebook page as well as our website.Below are the samples he came up […]
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced that Gestamp, a Spanish automotive company, will re-open the South Charleston stamping plant, investing a minimum of $100 million and eventually creating an estimated 700 jobs.
Economists said before a report today that manufacturing probably picked up in the U.S. in March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in February, according to a median estimate of 55 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Readings greater than 50 […]
Playing the U.S. Manufacturing Boom Written by: Jack Hough for The Wall Street Journal Jack Hough is a columnist at SmartMoney.com Email: jack.hough@dowjones.com Investors who have favored emerging markets like China in recent years should pay attention to another growing manufacturing center. It boasts plenty of skilled workers; cheap and abundant energy; stable institutions; and a large […]
Written by: Sam Ro for Business Insider – Money Game Contact:e-mail:sro@businessinsider.com Subscribe to his twitter feed America is making stuff again.The Wall Street Journal‘s Jack Hough wrote an article about the hot new idea economists are buzzing about: the American manufacturing boom.Hough spoke to Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Neil Dutta who identified three trends that lay the foundation to a […]
By Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer If housing was growing now at the pace it was until 2006, unemployment would likely be 2 percentage points lower and economic growth would be 2 points higher. And if Americans spent just $100 billion on U.S. goods instead of foreign goods – a gap that has widened the last […]
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) — When Bruce Cochrane’s family furniture company became an empty factory, he wouldn’t drive by the building, even though it was just a short ride from home. There were just too many memories of what was — and what he was sure would never be again.Five generations of Cochranes had been furniture […]
The folks over at GOOD/Corps were in touch with us last night regarding this awesome opportunity for our followers. First of all, we are excited that we are on their radar! Wooohooo- The Movement is spreading! So keep doing what you are all doing… sharing our page and raising awareness. What Works Project Overview General […]
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro visited Engineering Specialties, Inc. in North Branford to see the manufacture of evacuated tube solar thermal collectors for Apricus, also a North Branford company. Left to right: Apricus Vice President Nigel Ruddell, Apricus engineer Eric Skiba, Rosa, ESI’s Vice President Carmen Ciardiello, ESI’s President Ronald Delfini, and Apricus marketing person Shannon Horsley. […]
Andy Manis/Bloomberg News: Maurcie Johnson, left, and Diandre Jackson stacked locks at the Master Lock plant in Milwaukee in January. By EDUARDO PORTER of the New York Times on April 3, 2012 E-mail: eporter@nytimes.com Twitter: @portereduardo To hear Mike Bink, one might believe American manufacturing is about to recapture its lost glory.Master Lock, which has made locks in Milwaukee […]
Published in today’s BUSINESS INSIDER Article by: Dean Baker, CEPR | Apr. 4, 2012, Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research Contact: Mr. Dean Baker Subscribe to his RSS feed Eduardo Porter had an interesting column in the NYT discussing the future of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy and the role of trade. While […]
By: Elizabeth Peterson, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Lawson Nickol, founder and president of the All American Clothing Company, doesn’t talk about business in terms of profit and loss. Instead, he measures his success as a businessman by how well he sleeps at night. And lately, he’s been sleeping really well.His online retail and manufacturing company, based in Arcanum, Ohio, is […]
By Lorraine Woellert – Apr 2, 2012Manufacturing probably picked up in the U.S. in March, showing it is weathering a slowdown in global growth, economists said before a report today.The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index climbed to 53 from 52.4 in February, according to a median estimate of 55 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Readings greater than 50 signal growth. […]
This photo released Friday, March 30, 2012 by Rep Mike Michaud, D-Maine, and New Balance, shows details of a pair of New Balance running shoes, customized for President Barack Obama, at the company’s Norridgewock, Maine, facility. Michaud had the special pair of shoes made for the president to underscore the company’s production in Maine, where […]
David Paul – President, Fiscal Strategies Group – Posted: 02/13/2012 8:30 amApple aficionados suffered a blow a couple of weeks ago. All of those beautiful products, it turns out, are the product of an industrial complex that is nothing if not one step removed from slave labor. But of course there is nothing new here. Walmart […]
We cannot complain about the lack of jobs in the U.S. when we continue to purchase Chinese and other foreign products. The only way to reverse the trend and bring tax dollars back is to BUY MADE IN USA products.“How do I do that when everything is Chinese?” Answer: Most individual items DO have Made […]
