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John D. Oravecz and Andrew Conte To avoid always having to stamp documents to verify shipments originated in the United States, a chamber of commerce near Chicago’s O’Hare airport leases its seals to busy exporters for $250 a year. It would be too much work for a chamber employee […]
Eight-story building collapses in Bangladesh Anna McMullenSpecial for CNN (CNN) — The sad fact behind the building collapse in Bangladesh in which hundreds died is that it isn’t an isolated problem. The story will leave the headlines at the end of this week but on Monday hundreds of thousands of workers will […]
If we want to attract today’s youth to manufacturing careers, We need to make manufacturing “cool,” so they will choose to be part of the modern advanced manufacturing. We need to show them what great career opportunities exist in the industry and expose them to the variety of career opportunities in […]
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The following is being released by New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.:Senators are asking President Obama to apply the Berry Amendment to athletic footwear so that manufacturing jobs can be created in the United States and military trainees receive American-made goods rather than […]
Getty Inages Ansuya HarjaniAssistant Producer, CNBC Asia China’s disappointing economic growth that came in at 7.7 percent in the first quarter, when the market was expecting an expansion of 8 percent, is leading to a loss of confidence in the outlook for the world’s second largest economy. “Slowing first […]
Can “strategic plans” for different communities help a manufacturing renaissance? (AP) Jim Tankersley When the factory jobs disappear, what comes next? That’s one of the most important economic questions America has confronted over the last decade-plus – where are the new industries, the new big ideas, the new jobs […]
Philip LeBeauCNBC Auto and Airline Industry Reporter Walk onto the shop floor at Prince Industries in Shanghai, China and it looks like most other manufacturing plants in this country. It’s busy running two shifts, cranking out components that will be shipped to major manufacturers like Caterpillar, Siemens, and Honeywell But change is in the […]
The incentive helped seal a deal with Toyota to move nearly all production of the Lexus ES luxury vehicle to Kentucky.
The goods and equipment used in clean energy projects purchased or paid for by federal taxpayer dollars would have to contain 85 percent American-made content, if a bill proposed by Central Valley Rep John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, makes it into law. “We know that clean energy is an absolutely essential […]
Al Bredenberg Many feel that having U.S. consumers and businesses and especially the government buy exclusively American-made products would support domestic jobs and bolster the U.S. economy. But many others argue that “Buy American” policies are restrictive and could do more harm than good. Critics of “Buy American” often refer to such policies as protectionist […]
