Act Now: Dangerous Fast Track Bill Filed January 9th.
Senator Max Baucus and Representative Dave Camp filed the dangerous Fast Track bill to ram secretly negotiated negotiated trade and global governance agreements through Congress.
We asked for a national priority goal of balanced trade.…
Have You Heard of the TPP Yet? An Important Trade Agreement You Need to Know About
The U.S. government is currently working with 10 other countries to negotiate the biggest trade and investment agreement (also known as a “free trade agreement” or FTA) in history. It is called the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership.…
Violence Erupts in Cambodia as Labor Dispute Intensifies
Cambodia garment workers throw stones at riot police during a strike near a factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jan. 3, 2014 AP/HENG SINITH
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - At least four people were killed Friday when police…
White House To Announce Manufacturing Hubs
WHITE HOUSE (CNN) —The White House is finally following up on an initiative in 2013's State of the Union, just three weeks before he lays out his new agenda for this year.
President Obama will host an event in the East Room on Thursday…
Legislation Seeks to Tweak Standards for Made in USA
Sally Schilling/Daily Journal Dylan Sievers, right, and Lisa Sievers, third from right, with the Bulldog Lighting company.
Sally Schilling
Most Americans probably don’t think twice when they read a label that says,…
Where China Goes To Buy Made In USA
Kenneth Rapoza
China loves Made in the U.S.A.
China's Favorite U.S. States in 2012
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The No. 2 economy kept its spot as the third largest importer of U.S. goods last year, second only to neighborly Canada and Mexico.“The…
Steel for America’s Military Will Once Again be ‘Made in USA’
Brown is the Author of Legislation That Would Protect Domestic Jobs and America’s National Security by Restoring Requirement that Military Steel be 100 Percent Made in America; Cleveland’s ArcelorMittal and Cliffs Natural…
2 Connecticut Shoreline Firms Collaborate on 'Buy American Act'
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…
Manufacturing Jobs Still Matter, As Does the Dollar
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…
