Manufacturing is Sexy Again
Reposted from Crains Cleveland BusinessIrene Petrick thinks the next wave of manufacturers will come from unexpected sources — namely, from individuals and small businesses taking advantage of advances in technology.…
Farming, Food Safety Groups Ask U.S. to Stop Smithfield Foods Sale
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…
Wal-Mart to Pull Out of D.C. After Minimum-Wage Vote
Reposted from New York MagazineFor 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…
Smithfield CEO: China Deal Won't Hurt Food Safety
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…
On Manufacturing and Innovation
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…
If This Is a Good Jobs Report, Just Shoot Me
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…
Fatal Fashion: Movement Seeks Way To Change Global Clothing Production
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 Decline Of America's Job-Creating Small Businesses
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…
Steinway's Sale Is a Sour Note for Made in America
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…
Gillibrand: Sell Only 'Made in USA' Wares at National Park Sites
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.)…
