To celebrate New York Fashion Week as well as new eco-chic clothing, the Plastics Make it Possible initiative sponsors a vending machine that dispenses recycled plastic T-shirts. Looking to be both fashion-conscious and eco-conscious? Plastics Make it Possible® is helping New Yorkers explore this cool new trend. And you can participate, too!For three days during New York Fashion Week, […]
Posted on 10 September 2013 by Sara Haimowitz.Reposted from Coalition for a Prosperous America: COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 9%.COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%.COSTELLO: You just said 9%.ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.ABBOTT: No, that’s 16%.COSTELLO: […]
President Obama spent his time at the G-20 conference in St. Petersburg trying to drum up support for an attack on Syria. As part of that effort he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Here’s the report from Kyodo news service: Japan and the United States agreed in a summit Thursday to […]
The following script is from “March of the Machines” which aired on Jan. 13, 2013, and was rebroadcast on Sept. 8, 2013. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Maria Gavrilovic, producers. One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer […]
An employee creates a welding bead on the inside seem of a Pioneer coal stove at the Leisure Line Stove Co. facility in Berwick, Pennsylvania. | Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg Manufacturing is poised to make a bigger contribution to the U.S. expansion after a factory barometer unexpectedly climbed in August to the highest level in more […]
An April Gallup poll suggests Millennials don’t value the “Made in America” movement as much as some might hope. Out of 1,000 people, 45% claim to put special effort into buying American-made products versus 55% who do not. The results, discussed at length in WWD, indicate a large age gap between those who care the most […]
Zaichun Ye, right, a consultant at Verité in China, seeing if a worker is wearing chain mail gloves at a textile factory in Yuhang in Zhejiang province. | Photo Credit: Jonathan Browning for The New York Times Inspectors came and went from a Walmart-certified factory in Guangdong Province in China, approving its production of more […]
You needn’t be a fan of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” or a fashionista familiar with QVC designer Susan Graver, who proudly touts her U.S.-manufactured designs, to appreciate that being “Made in America” is making a comeback. Reposted from The Washington Post: Let us celebrate that this Labor Day 2013 is trending toward its […]
Mike Rowe Encourages Students To Learn A Trade I spent a few hours Wednesday night listening to Mike Rowe from Discovery Channels‘Dirty Jobs’ talk about how profoundly disconnected Americans are about jobs, skills and work. We met him at SkillsUSA Annual Championships happening now in Kansas City. Reposted from The Huffington Post: Rowe traveled the world for the past […]
The Federal Reserve’s easy-money policies have boosted U.S. manufacturers, but a more robust rebound in that sector requires less fiscal and regulatory restraint from Washington, a top Fed official said Thursday. Reposted from CNBC: Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher has long complained that U.S. politicians have undermined the economic recovery, […]
As U.S. production costs drop, export manufacturing has become the unsung hero of the economic recovery, a new study shows. | ROBYN BECK / AFP – Getty Images Americans may be fond of lamenting the decline of the country’s economic clout and the flood of “Made in China” goods, but they […]
Last week, Walmart expanded on the $50 billion Buy American pledge it made last January with a full-fledged Made-in-America summit.
A national manufacturing strategy would help U.S. industries stay on the cutting-edge of emerging technologies, enhance overall knowledge generation and thereby prevent economy-wide erosion of innovation capacity even if some market share is lost to overseas competitors. A robust traded sector economy is essential to U.S. global competitiveness, and […]
Wal-Mart U.S. president and CEO Bill Simon addresses participants at the Wal-Mart U.S. Manufacturing Summit in Orlando, Fla., last Thursday. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press) A verbal commitment by Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon to buy an additional $50 billion US in U.S.-made products over the next 10 years has met with skepticism. […]
An American factory worker in a scene from “American Made Movie.” | Photo Credit: Variance Films Technology, global competitiveness and outsourcing put manufacturing on life support in America, but after touring small towns and cities across the country and talking to business leaders who still manufacture their products domestically, we are […]
Factory workers put the finishing touches on motorcycles on the line at a Harley-Davidson assembly facility in York, Pa., where union work rules were simplified. After more than a decade of losing ground to China and other export powerhouses, U.S. manufacturers are finally showing signs of regaining their competitive edge. Reposted from The Wall Street […]
CINCINNATI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) has voluntarily recalled specific lots of dry pet food because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. These lots were distributed in the United States and represent roughly one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of annual production. No Salmonella-related illnesses have been reported […]
In the early 1940s, in order to advance the domestic industrial base in the time of war, Congress passed a law that required America’s military to use American-made equipment. The so-called “Berry Amendment” mandated American soldiers to train and operate with uniforms and gear made in the United States. […]
An engineer at Shapeways removes finished products from a 3D Printer at the company’s factory in New York City. Anyone can upload a 3-D design to Shapeways’ website and submit an order to have it “printed” in plastic at the factory. Photograph by: Mary Altaffer, The Associated Press Photos , The Associated […]
Nationwide, manufacturers say that there is a gap between available jobs and the skills job seekers needed to fill those jobs — a recent report by Deloitte LLP and the Manufacturing Institute contends that as many as 600,000 skilled production and production support jobs are going unfilled. Reposted from the Watertown Daily Times: Circumstances are […]
My life is a tribute to the American Dream. My business partner and I started with 300 record albums and a $20 booth at the local farmers market. That was nearly 34 years ago. Vintage Vinyl has grown into a multi-million dollar company with 23 employees. We stage 150 in-store concerts […]
Reposted from Forbes: Recent news in and around the smartphone space points to an increasingly challenging environment: Weaker-than-expected shipments from Samsung; Weaker-than-expected June quarter shipments followed by price cuts and layoffs at Research in Motion – Blackberry; A sour outlook from HTC that calls for a sharp sequential drop in revenue; Apple AAPL -0.88%’s iPhone shipments fell 16.5% sequentially […]
The demolition of the old Port Clinton Middle and Jefferson Elementary Schools in Port Clinton, Ohio. Andrew Borowiec for The New York Times. By ROBERT D. PUTNAM My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered decent opportunity for the children […]
Young boys rescued from child traffickers at Katihar station in Bihar state, India, waiting for their parents to collect them. Photograph: Gethin Chamberlain for the Observer Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning […]
Daytona State College’s Center for Business & Industry will offer an 11-week “Manufacturing Fast-Track” training program beginning Sept. 9 for those are interested in careers in either machining or welding. Scholarships for the program are also available. Reposted from News Journal Online: Daytona Beach News-Journal – DAYTONA BEACH — The purpose of the course, according to […]
The economy added 162,000 jobs in July, fewer than economists expected, as unemployment fell to 7.4 percent, the Labor Department reported today. Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Breaking News | Celebrity News | More ABC News Videos Reposted from ABC News: Many economists expected the addition of 175,000 to 185,000 jobs in July […]
HERE is a symbol of China’s assault on the American economy: the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. This landmark, which opened in 1964, is North America’s longest suspension bridge. It’s also in urgent need of renovation. Unfortunately, $34 million in steel production and fabrication work has been outsourced to China. Reposted from […]
DETROIT (Reuters) – For nearly six decades Detroit’s story has been one of relentless erosion of its once mighty manufacturing base, but even as the Motor City faces a long bankruptcy a clutch of small producers has moved in to rekindle the “Made in Detroit” brand. Reposted from Reuters: […]
Foxconn are considering a move to the USA. As you know the iPhone 5 is made at Foxconn in China right now and it has been causing quite a few problems for both the manufacturer and Apple. Foxconn are now looking into cities in the US, which include Los Angeles and Detroit to determine which […]
Rumour has it that we could see Apple iPhone 6 before the end of August or by early September at the latest. Everyone is waiting to hear that the iPhone 6 is in production, it would have to be sometime soon if it is to come out with iOS 7. We have seen many concepts […]
