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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 also has a more recent history of being almost a pariah. This newer view equated computer chips with potato […]
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 on the big number — we added 195,000 jobs! — figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show […]
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 tragedies in November and April ripped open the unseemly side of the global clothing […]
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 near all-time highs. One of the reasons for this is the decline of America’s small businesses, which struggle to compete […]
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 Steinway and Sons, was sold to a private equity firm, Kohlberg & Co. What does a leveraged […]
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.) and bill co-sponsor Rep. Steve Israel (D-L.I.) say many of the patriotic items currently being sold — […]
Modern Vice Booties As the fashion industry has grown and boomed globally, it’s become a increasingly difficult to find goods crafted right here in the good ol’ U. S. of A. So we can’t think of a better way to commemorate our nation’s independence than calling out designers and brands that […]
Millions of Americans showed their patriotism on the 4th of July by waving a product that may have come from China. Ninety-four percent or $3.6 million worth of the flags imported into the U.S. last year came from China, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. American manufacturers still make […]
Enter via directions and Rafflecopter below. For more information on each individual product and the company contributing the product, please click on the individual graphics below. They will take you directly to their website. This giveaway consists of a whopping 17 fantastic American made products! All products have been generously donated by our Made in […]
Ron Young, a veteran Maryland legislator, says it was a “YouTube thing” that inspired him to push for the “buy America bill” enacted this year by his state. The ABC news clip uploaded on to the video platform featured a Montana homebuilder whose secretary spent a year calling all over the […]
Americans are happy to spend as we mark the patriotic day, but it’s not necessarily U.S. companies that should be celebrating. You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House […]
This giveaway consists of 5 pretty cool American made products! Today’s gift pack is worth over $200. All products have been generously donated by our Made in America Movement Members and Sponsors. (MAM Members) Rules for entry: (1) Enter via Rafflecopter widget below. It may seem overwhelming, but it’s really quite easy. (2) Comment at the […]
United Steelworkers’ vice president said the work would cost about $30 an hour per worker in America but just $10 to $15 a day in China. The agency says it could not find an American company capable of making the high-tech steel plates it wants, but critics say the decision came […]
This giveaway consists of 4 pretty cool American made products! Today’s gift pack is worth over $200. All products have been generously donated by our Made in America Movement Members and Sponsors. (MAM Members) Rules for entry: (1) Enter via Rafflecopter widget below. It may seem overwhelming, but it’s really quite easy. (2) Comment at the […]
The Volkswagen Group plans to invest more than $5 billion in North America over the next three years in new products, technologies and infrastructure aimed at helping the company reach its long-term goals for the region. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. celebrated on Tuesday the grand opening of a $40 million Southeast Regional Distribution Center in […]
Jon Springer Three months can be an awfully long wait.Yet that’s typical of the time it takes to move manufactured goods from a factory in China to a store shelf in the United States, according to Hal Sirkin, senior partner with Boston Consulting Group, speaking at Wal-Mart Stores’ annual shareholders meeting events this month […]
Bangladesh expressed dismay at a U.S. decision to cut duty-free trade access, insisting Friday that the government has taken concrete steps to improve safety and working conditions since a factory collapse in April killed more than 1,000 garment workers. The U.S. had suspended the trade benefits a day earlier, saying […]
The F-150 snapped a four-year streak for the Camry and earned the No. 1 spot in Cars.com’s 2013 American-Made index. The index ranksSource: Ford Motor Co. Ford Motor Co.’s F-150 pickup, pacing the biggest gain in U.S. market share among automakers this year, topped a consumer website’s list of most-American made […]
A welder builds parts for finished petroleum tanks at Southern Tank and Manufacturing Inc. in Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S. | Photo Credit: Ty Wright, Bloomberg – Getty Images Manufacturing jobs in the U.S. appear to be coming back—if ever so slightly. Several American firms, including Caterpillar, GE and Ford, have announced they’re shifting some manufacturing operations back to the United […]
Photo Credit: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are renewing a push to stop the federal government from buying and flying American flags made outside the country. A bipartisan group of House legislators led by Iowa Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley introduced the “All-American Flag […]
New documentary follows one man’s journey to live off only products “Made in USA.” After a manufacturing plant closed down in his hometown of Ravenswood, W.Va., resulting in 650 people losing their jobs, Josh Miller began to wonder what was really made in America anymore.He decided to set out on a 30-day road trip […]
The slogan “Made in the U.S.A.” is far more than a patriotic platitude. It’s a rallying cry for the rejuvenation of the middle class.So argues filmmaker Josh Miller in Made in the U.S.A.: The 30-Day Journey, a new documentary now available via streaming as well as DVD. Miller, […]
98% of the clothing sold in the USA is manufactured overseas, and nearly all of that clothing is made from fabrics that have a negative effect on the environment. However, if the ambitious father and daughter co-founders of PuraKai Clothing have their way, not only will there be a […]
Hello Everyone! We are giving away 13 awesome prizes. $860 worth of American made products will go to ONE lucky dad this weekend. Will it be yours? All prizes have been generously donated by our Made in America Movement Members and Sponsors. (MAM Members) Rules for entry: (1) Enter via Rafflecopter widget below. It may seem […]
Michael Preysman, chief of the online boutique Everlane, at a plant in Vernon, Calif., where its T-shirts and sweatshirts are made. | Photo Credit: The New York Times Written By: STEPHANIE CLIFFORD The revolution that has swept the food industry is expanding to retail: origins matter. With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on […]
The administrative building of the Masanjia labor camp and other facilities in China. | Photo Credit: The New York Times Written By: ANDREW JACOBS MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at Kmart, traveled 5,000 miles from China into the […]
Students from Hardin Valley Academy, Halls High School and Oak Ridge High School celebrate winning the 2013 championship title at the FIRST Robotics Smoky Mountains regionals. | Michael Messing/Special to The Oak Ridger Written by:Carolyn Krause / Special to The Oak Ridger The 3-D printer has been in the […]
New building sets offer fans exciting building options. Hatfield, PA (PRWEB) June 10, 2013 K’NEX Brands, the US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love®, is pleased to introduce four new additions to its K’NEX Building Sets line. These K’NEX Building Sets contain 100% made in the USA bricks, rods and connectors that […]
In a new documentary debuting in theaters July 4, 2013, a young man from West Virginia shows what happens at the heart of small town America when families like his lose their manufacturing jobs. Charleston, WV (PRWEB) June 11, 2013West Virginian Josh Miller treks from Washington D.C. to […]
Michael Messing/Special to The Oak RidgerStudents from Hardin Valley Academy, Halls High School and Oak Ridge High School celebrate winning the 2013 championship title at the FIRST Robotics Smoky Mountains regionals. Written by: Carolyn Krause / Special to The Oak Ridger The 3-D printer has been in the news recently […]
