
Fiat Chrysler Announces Plans To Invest $1 Billion In The U.S.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV will invest $1 billion toward making three new Jeep models in the U.S., plus a Ram heavy-duty pickup now built in Mexico, as President-elect Donald Trump pressures the auto industry to hire workers and produce vehicles…

Stanley Black & Decker To Open U.S. Plant
One of the nation's best-known toolmakers, Stanley Black & Decker, said Thursday that it will move more manufacturing back to the U.S. from overseas, including construction of a new $35 million factory after acquiring the Craftsman brand…

Ford Cancels Mexico Plant, expands U.S. Factory Adding 700 Jobs
Ford Motor announced Tuesday that it would cancel plans for a $1.6 billion Mexico plant and launch a Michigan expansion in a move that may be viewed as a capitulation to Donald Trump.
Ford CEO Mark Fields said the company would spend $700…

The Power of a Small Factory: Emerging Weapons in Fight Against Poverty
BALTIMORE — James Branch’s life seemed destined to follow a familiar arc in the streets that surround the Marlin Steel factory, where he bends metal from sunrise until near dark.
He fathered a child while in high school, dropped out,…

American Made Cell Phone: Is Apple Considering A Made in USA iPhone?
The world’s largest contract assembler of consumer electronics, including the Apple iPhone, says it’s in talks to invest in a US assembly, responding to Trump’s tweets to bring jobs home.
Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest…

How Can Trump Stop Companies From Offshoring Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll personally call every company in America that plans to ship jobs overseas and ask them to reconsider.
But there are ways to stop American companies from offshoring jobs that don’t involve the U.S.…

Carrier Gets Tax Breaks, But Still Sending 1,300 Jobs To Mexico
Indiana state officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks to encourage the company to keep at least 1,069 jobs at its Carrier unit in Indianapolis, Carrier and the state said on Thursday.
President-elect…

Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S.A
From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move over 2,000 of them from Indiana…

Trump Supporters Anxious For Jobs To Come Back To USA
By the time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years this month, Paul Roell was already asleep. He did not stay up to see Barack Obama win the presidency in 2008, or watch in 2000 as the margin of votes separating…

Making It In China Is Not The Bargain It Used To Be
I remember when China started being a real threat to U.S. moldmakers and molders in the early to mid-1990s, and all I heard was talk of how cheap China’s labor was and how it would be impossible for U.S. manufacturers to compete. I used to…