President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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It’s Not Easy To Be Sure Your Clothes Come From Safe Factories

NEW YORK — You can recycle your waste, grow your own food and drive a fuel-efficient car. But being socially responsible isn’t so easy when it comes to the clothes on your back. Jason and Alexandra Lawrence of Lyons, Colo., eat…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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American Manufacturing Is Going (to New) Places: And What That Means About Jobs

Mark Tomlinson CEO, Society of Manufacturing Engineers There's been a lot of discussion lately about American manufacturing: why it's important to a strong economy, what policies could strengthen it, and if the signs of resurgence…
$147 Million Tax Break Yields US Made Lexus
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$147 Million Tax Break Yields US Built Lexus

The incentive helped seal a deal with Toyota to move nearly all production of the Lexus ES luxury vehicle to Kentucky. Toyota Motor Corp. has been offered $146.5 million worth of tax breaks from the State of Kentucky to add production capacity…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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Walmart to Boost Sourcing of US Made Products: Hiring 100k Veterans

Walmart announced bold commitments to increase domestic sourcing of the products it sells and help veterans find jobs when they come off active duty. Speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show, Walmart U.S. President…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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Walmart to Boost US-Made Products

Walmart today announced bold commitments to increase domestic sourcing of the products it sells and help veterans find jobs when they come off active duty. Speaking at the National Retail Federation’s annual BIG Show, Walmart…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group

When President Obama comes to Montgomery County on Friday, he will speak in front of a two-foot-tall toy helicopter, a toy roller coaster, a toy grandfather clock, a motorized toy carousel, and an American flag made of 49,000 K'Nex pieces. The…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back, No Matter Who’s President

The percentage of Americans working in manufacturing fell under President Reagan. It also fell under Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama (respectively). Which is to say,…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group

Igloo Adds Workers, 130 Items, Brings Rotomolding In-house

Rhoda Miel October 2, 2012 KATY, TEXAS (Oct. 2, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- Four years after a change in ownership, Igloo Products Corp. has boosted sales nearly 50 percent, revived its product line with 130 new items and is…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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Tool and Die Makers Desperately Casting for Workers

The economic recovery has been driven by a manufacturing revival in the past two years.But the strength of that revival could be threatened by the challenges facing a small and beleaguered sector of manufacturing that evokes images of…
President Obama Touring K’NEX Manufacturing Facility at The Rodon Group
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Those Manufacturing Jobs Aren't Coming Back You Know, Not Ever

Every country has them, those who say that the only thing wrong is that there aren’t enough people making enough things that can be dropped on their feet. That everything would be better if we could just have more of those good old…