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We need to save the internet.Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon want to control what we can and cannot do online — and they’re about to get their wish. Their lobbyists and lawyers have taken over the FCC — the agency meant to keep them in check. Now, the former lobbyist running the FCC is about to announce new rules […]
The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That’s the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978. Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study — 2009, […]
The good news from the April jobs report is that the recovery is the same as it’s always been. The bad news is that, well, the recovery is the same as it’s always been — and some workers are giving up as they realize that. As you may have noticed, this winter was pretty cold. So cold, […]
New government data released Friday morning showed the nation added 288,000 jobs in April, a reassuring sign that the U.S. economy has picked up momentum since stalling out over the winter. The hiring spree surpassed most analysts’ expectations and is the strongest showing in more than two years. Businesses added workers across a broad array of […]
New data from the World Bank suggests China could surpass the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy as early as this year, a day that was always meant to arrive after China began its quest for wealth in the 1980s, but it will just veil the reality of its economic weaknesses China’s economy is catching […]
“The game is rigged,” writes Senator Elizabeth Warren in her new book A Fighting Chance . It’s rigged because the rich and their lobbyists have rigged the rules of the game to their favor. The rules are reflected in a tax code and bankruptcy laws that have seen the greatest transfer of wealth from the […]
Before a throng of cheering Hickey Freeman Co.employees, company officials and Sen. Charles Schumer Monday announced a $1 million manufacturing deal with Polo Ralph Lauren and declared that there are more such deals to come. “We’re no longer interested in survival,” said Stephen Granovsky, CEO of Toronto-based Grano Retail Holdings, which bought the famed Rochester clothing company last […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Photo Stencil, LLC, a leading full-service provider of high-performance stencils and tooling, announces the addition of a manufacturing plant in Golden, CO. The new 35,200 sq. ft. facility has three cleanrooms: a 10,000 sq. ft. Class 10,000 cleanroom, a 4500 sq. ft. Class 1,000 cleanroom, and a small Class 100 cleanroom. The […]
BOSTON – Massachusetts-based New Balance could get a boost worth tens of millions of dollars with a new Pentagon policy providing military recruits with U.S.-made sneakers. New Balance is one of the few shoe manufacturers that meet all federal requirements, said Matt LeBretton, spokesman for the company that manufactures shoes in Lawrence, Boston and Maine. Acting […]
In just a few hours Scott Paul, President of Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) will join Senator Sherrod Brown, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, and hundreds of workers and citizens in Lorain, Ohio to speak with one voice: Save Our Steel Jobs. Because they’re at risk. And Washington needs to know why. These workers are facing a flood of illegally produced foreign […]
A worker manufactures parts for industrial coffee grinding equipment at the Modern Process Equipment Inc. (MPE) manufacturing facility in Chicago. Photographer: Tim Boyle/Bloomberg Business activity in the Chicago area expanded in April at the fastest pace in six months, a sign manufacturing will keep supporting the world’s largest economy. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago […]
NEW YORK CITY — Stephanie Wilson was reaching for a receipt inside a paper shopping bag from Saks Fifth Avenue when she found a letter pleading, “HELP HELP HELP.” The message, written in blue ink on white lined paper, appeared to be a desperate cry from a man who said he made the bag while being unfairly […]
Manufacturing in the U.S. has become more competitive over the past decade compared with rivals such as China and Russia. Shown here at workers in an American Apparel garment dye factory in Southgate in 2012. (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times / April 3, 2012) Another win for The Made in America Movement! A new […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will cover 40% of global trade It is poised to be the world’s biggest ever free trade deal and possibly its most ambitious. A dozen countries are negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which if successful, will account for two-fifths of world trade. Those countries are the US, Japan, Brunei, Malaysia, […]
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest branded shoemaker, fell the most in nine months in Hong Kong trading after the company said it plans to increase factory workers’ compensation in a bid to end a strike. Yue Yuen fell 5 percent, the most since July 2013, to close at HK$24.80, extending the stock’s decline this […]
POMONA, CA–(Marketwired – April 04, 2014) – Coleman® Spas is a company that understands the importance of keeping jobs in the United States. Committed to keeping over 200 workers employed, this leading spa manufacturer believes in the American Dream “the opportunity for prosperity, success, and upward social mobility achieved through hard work.” This message ignites drive and determination […]
WASHINGTON – More than 80 years ago, during the Great Depression, thousands of unemployed Americans traveled from far and wide to the border of Arizona and Nevada, hoping to land a precious job building and operating one of the nation’s great engineering wonders, the Hoover Dam. Today, however — even with millions of Americans unable […]
To build the new Tappan Zee Bridge, New York is bucking a trend and buying American, with steel made in Indiana. Three of ArcelorMittal USA’s plate mills are furnishing steel for the $3.9 billion bridge project, The Times in Munster, Ind., reported. ArcelorMittal expects to provide about 160,000 tons of plate for the twin-span crossing, […]
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Senate Republicans derailed efforts to move forward with a $21 billion bill to enhance health care, education and job benefits for veterans. Republicans stopped the veterans bill from moving on a procedural vote, which needed 60 votes. The final tally was 56-41. Republicans and Democrats normally agree on the need to enhance benefits for the […]
At a time when flag-waving couldn’t be more in fashion, David MacNeil knows a thing or two about standing up for American products. Or at least resting your muddy boots on them. While creating jobs in the process.
Bottles of California oil display certification stickers. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) If you think an olive oil imported from Italy or Spain is superior to one made in California, U.S. olive oil producers would like to have a word with you. They’re looking to change the perception of domestic olive […]
China’s HSBC flash (preliminary) manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell to a seven-month low of 48.3 in February. This was significantly worse than the 49.5 reading expected by economists. Any reading below 50 signals contraction in China’s manufacturing sector.Markets around the world started selling after the report came out.However, economists agree that […]
NoNetz anti chafe swimwear for boys and men have been advised by top business and fashion experts to move production from the USA to China. They are committing to stay. Mahopac, NY – February 13th, 2014 NoNetz announced today that they will do everything in their power to continue […]
A local company is helping Team USA carry their equipment in style during these winter games. Fieldtex makes duffle bags for medical and military equipment. They wanted to make bags for Olympians and sent e-mails to U.S. outfitter Ralph Lauren that went unanswered. It turns out Ralph Lauren found them. “One of their designers was […]
MOULTRIE — Rumors that a major change was in the making for Riverside Manufacturing Co., a mainstay garment manufacturer and employer in Moultrie since 1911, were verified Tuesday. Some 140 employees will lose their jobs. Riverside officials said it is closing its cutting, sewing and warehousing operations here in […]
NEW DELHI — India, the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription drugs to the United States, is coming under increased scrutiny by American regulators for safety lapses, falsified drug test results and selling fake medicines. Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, arrived in […]
Sen. Sharon Brown and Kennewick Mayor Steve Young hope a proposed pilot program will help the Tri-Cities and other areas draw in more manufacturers. Together, they came up with an idea that would allow manufacturers to reinvest some of what they would normally pay in business and occupation tax […]
Foxconn looks likely to begin manufacturing large-screen TVs in the US soon Last month the company’s chairman, Terry Gou, said the manufacturing giant was “studying the feasibility” of opening a display manufacturing plant in the US, but according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Gou is now more bullish on the possibility. “We have many […]
Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou spent the last morning of the Lunar New Year festival praying for a year of good business, holding incense sticks aloft in front of a spread of fruit and other offerings. It was partly why the boss of the world’s largest electronics manufacturer was particularly […]
