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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 […]
World’s largest retailer shoots for success where government is failing. Now here’s an economic stimulus plan America can get behind. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pledged to buy $250 billion in American made-products during the next 10 years. The company is promoting the initiative in a series of ads broadcast […]
Local governments in Michigan could soon be restricted from buying American flags made outside the U.S. for veterans’ graves. LANSING (AP) — Local governments in Michigan could soon be restricted from buying American flags made outside the U.S. for veterans’ graves. The state Senate on Tuesday is expected to give […]
After a contentious battle pitting the United Auto Workers (UAW) against Republican politicians and party operatives in Tennessee, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga voted against unionizing 712 to 626. That kept the UAW from entering a foreign automaker’s U.S. plant for the first time in the South. Opponents of the plant’s unionization ranged […]
As kids in a boisterous playgroup click together the brightly colored interlocking plastic rods and connectors to assemble a toy based on Angry Birds, they may not give much thought to where the pieces came from. But those bright K’NEX toys are trendsetters. Like most plastic toys sold in the United States, K’NEX building sets were made in […]
WASHINGTON — “The state of our union is strong,” President Obama will tell the country tonight, echoing a sentiment shared by nearly every executive before him. But just how strong is it for the country’s working people, particularly those on the lower end of the income scale? The number […]
Faced with a sluggish economy and a Congress expected to be notably unproductive, President Obama is calling for “a year of action.” Where he can, he says, he’ll go it alone. And thus we have the manufacturing institute that his administration awarded earlier this month to a consortium in Raleigh, N.C. […]
A construction worker pauses at the Second Avenue Subway project site in New York, Jan. 10, 2014. SPENCER PLATT/GETTY The president will raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10, NBC News has learned. He will announce the executive order during Tuesday’s State of the Union address. This means that new contracts for construction […]
