In Savar, Bangladesh, site of April’s factory disaster, untreated factory wastewater is common. | PHOTO CREDIT: Khaled Hasan for The New York Times Reposted from The New York Times SAVAR, Bangladesh — On the worst days, the toxic stench wafting through the Genda Government Primary School is almost suffocating. Teachers struggle […]
Reposted from The Washington Post It’s been one of the most consequential changes to the U.S. labor market over the last several decades: Manufacturing jobs have disappeared as assembly lines have become increasingly automated and as companies find it is cheaper to make their goods overseas. In 2003, nearly 15 million Americans were employed in […]
Leaders from the business, foundation, NGO and government sectors came together in Chicago two weeks ago to find solutions that accelerate the economic recovery in the United States. They came to the Windy City for the third meeting of CGI America, an annual event that tackles a diverse set of topics including […]
Reposted from The Huffington Post As a trained industrial designer, part of my former job was to anticipate consumer needs — sometimes before consumers themselves even knew what they wanted. So in a way, I guess you could say I can see the future. In our near future, I see American-made products that are designed […]
Consumer confidence unexpectedly cooled in July as Americans became less optimistic about the outlook for the economy. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment decreased to 83.9 in July from 84.1 the month prior, today’s report showed. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for a gain to 84.7. The gauge reached an almost […]
West Texas Intermediate crude was little changed as manufacturing in the New York region expanded in July at the fastest pace in five months and U.S. retail sales rose less than projected in June. Prices fluctuated as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index climbed to 9.5, the highest level […]
The sheer amount of jobs that were lost during the Great Recession is nothing short of breathtaking. Nearly 8 million jobs were lost, and the sad reality is that a lot of those may never come back. That sparked a conversation about how to create jobs in one of the most promising growth sectors we […]
An employee assembles a Makerbot Industries LLC 3D Printer at the company’s new factory in the Brooklyn borough of New York. | Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in July at the fastest pace in five months as the area’s factory activity stabilized amid a slowdown […]
U.S. manufacturing is on the brink of a renaissance fueled by rising wages in China and increased productivity at home, according to Hal Sirkin, senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group. Boston Consulting is a global management-consulting firm and business adviser. Sirkin, who blogs for Bloomberg Businessweek, was in Louisville to speak […]
Many companies have moved manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. (Shutterstock) Reposted from VOXXI: Is there a reverse in manufacturing trends? Late last year, Apple announced that it was moving part of its manufacturing back to the U.S. Many saw this as a PR stunt by the company, as it had suffered an blow to […]
A growing number of American companies are moving their manufacturing back to the United States IN 2005, A START-UP company from California called ET Water Systems decided to move its manufacturing operations to China. At the time there was a general exodus to Asia in search of lower costs, […]
Reposted from the New Hampshire Business Review Forum focuses the economic, educational need to focus on advanced manufacturing. ‘It takes a partnership approach between state, education and industry to build the workforce and create well-paying jobs,’ says Ross Gittell, chancellor of the Community College System of New Hampshire. If a workforce of highly skilled, […]
Reposted from THonline.com: Sometime during the past decade, when most everyone was focused on inflating the housing bubble, I was called into a senior manager’s office. My employer was planning to move an assembly line to Mexico and thought I would be a great manager for the project. As the executive […]
When manufacturing jobs move overseas we wondered if total landed costs are considered and if there is now an argument for bringing manufacturing back to the USA. This logistics practice is known commonly as “reshoring.” Our theme for the month of July is the United States or for all of you Bruce Springsteen fans – “Born in the […]
Reposted from Crains Cleveland Business Irene Petrick thinks the next wave of manufacturers will come from unexpected sources — namely, from individuals and small businesses taking advantage of advances in technology. Ms. Petrick, a Penn State University professor and managing director of Trendscape Innovation Group, was one of three […]
Reposted from Journal Star – Two Nebraska groups — The Center for Rural Affairs and the Nebraska Farmers Union — are among food safety and farm groups calling on federal regulators to halt the proposed sale of pork giant Smithfield Foods to a Chinese processor — a deal that would represent […]
Reposted from New York Magazine For decades, Walmart has been known in the retail industry for its hard-line negotiating tactics. As the world’s largest retailer, it’s massive enough that it can offer to pay a ridiculously low price, threaten to walk unless its price is met, and watch suppliers trip over […]
Reposted from USA Today – WASHINGTON — Congressional lawmakers grilled the top executive at pork giant Smithfield Foods Wednesday about how the proposed $4.7 billion purchase of the company by China’s largest meat producer might affect the U.S. food supply and agricultural producers. CEO Larry Pope told a packed Senate […]
Manufacturing: The Key to American Innovation Ralph Gomory Reposted from the Huffington Post – Manufacturing was once widely recognized as the outstanding strength of America and the basis of its prosperity, but manufacturing also has a more recent history of being almost a pariah. This newer view equated computer chips with potato […]
The June jobs report shows we lost 6,000 jobs in manufacturing, but added 9,000 in garden supply stores and 19,000 at amusement parks and casinos. Is this the picture of a healthy economic superpower? While corporate media will focus on the big number — we added 195,000 jobs! — figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show […]
Fatal fashion. That’s the derogatory new label dangling over the U.S. clothing industry following a deadly fire and a building collapse that killed more than 1,200 garment factory workers in Bangladesh in recent months. The tragedies in November and April ripped open the unseemly side of the global clothing […]
On Friday, we learned that U.S. companies added 195,000 jobs in June, which was much higher than the 165,000 expected by economists. Still, the unemployment rate remains painfully high at 7.6%, even as GDP, corporate profits, and stocks sit near all-time highs. One of the reasons for this is the decline of America’s small businesses, which struggle to compete […]
A Model D piano being made at the Steinway factory in Astoria, Queens. Brian Ross “Made in America” took another major hit very quietly yesterday. An American musical institution, the 160-year-old American piano maker Steinway and Sons, was sold to a private equity firm, Kohlberg & Co. What does a leveraged […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Only “Made in the U.S.A.” merchandise would be on sale at national park and monument gift shops under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Ms. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and bill co-sponsor Rep. Steve Israel (D-L.I.) say many of the patriotic items currently being sold — […]
Modern Vice Booties As the fashion industry has grown and boomed globally, it’s become a increasingly difficult to find goods crafted right here in the good ol’ U. S. of A. So we can’t think of a better way to commemorate our nation’s independence than calling out designers and brands that […]
Millions of Americans showed their patriotism on the 4th of July by waving a product that may have come from China. Ninety-four percent or $3.6 million worth of the flags imported into the U.S. last year came from China, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. American manufacturers still make […]
Workers cut and sew garments at Karen Kane’s manufacturing facility in Los Angeles. (Photo: Greg Cox, YouLookFab) A small but growing number of clothing designers and retailers are bringing some production back to the U.S. The firms cite rising labor costs, poor quality and long lead times in China. […]
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Ron Young, a veteran Maryland legislator, says it was a “YouTube thing” that inspired him to push for the “buy America bill” enacted this year by his state. The ABC news clip uploaded on to the video platform featured a Montana homebuilder whose secretary spent a year calling all over the […]
Americans are happy to spend as we mark the patriotic day, but it’s not necessarily U.S. companies that should be celebrating. You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House […]
