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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 giant Smithfield Foods to a Chinese processor — a deal that would represent […]
Reposted from New York Magazine For 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 low price, threaten to walk unless its price is met, and watch suppliers trip over […]
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 producer might affect the U.S. food supply and agricultural producers. CEO Larry Pope told a packed Senate […]
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 […]
