
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.…

New Wool Mill Will Be Second Largest in U.S.A.
Stephenie Anderson inspects some of the yarn her new processing plant is turning out. | JOHN STENNES Forum News Service
FOSSTON — Stephenie Anderson’s timing for starting a wool-processing plant in Fosston is spot-on. So says…

Companies in U.S. Added 238,000 Jobs in December
A pickup in hiring at factories is helping to support the increase in employment. | Photographer: Justin Ide/Bloomberg
Companies added more workers than projected in December as U.S. employers grew more optimistic about the prospects for…

Top US Manufacturers Returning Jobs Back to US from China
American corporations that off-shored manufacturing to China for two decades are bringing jobs home.
A decade ago, jobs were on a nearly one-way street to the People's Republic. In 2003, when 150,000 manufacturing jobs went to China,…

Putting America Back to Work: 5 Ways Made in USA Is Staging a Comeback

PR Ploy Or Not, Walmart’s ‘Made In America’ Push Means Something
Last week, Walmart expanded on the $50 billion Buy American pledge it made last January with a full-fledged Made-in-America summit.
That's right. Import-fueled retail giant Walmart filled a Florida convention center to…

10 States Where Manufacturing Still Matters
Factory manufacturing output increased for the second straight month. Overall industrial production has increased 0.8%. (Photo: Mike De Sisti, AP)
While some experts are predicting a revival, manufacturing has lagged the economy…

Why Tech Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back To America
Ted Samson
Companies are moving manufacturing closer to high-tech hubs to better protect intellectual property, serve customers
For the first time in more than a decade, technology manufacturing jobs are on the rise in the United…

This Is The Way Blue-Collar America Ends
Rockwell Automation viewed from the Milwaukee river
Sophie Quinton
Sailors on Lake Michigan know they're approaching the south side of Milwaukee when they spot the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower. But the building beneath the tower…

Do Americans Really Care How Their Clothes Are Made?
Clothing with Joe Fresh labels lies in the debris on April 30
By Calum Macleod
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good.
Making shirts in this…