JOHN GUENTHER It doesn’t take a fictional ad guru like Don Draper to let you know working in manufacturing has a branding problem with younger generations. The good news for the California economy is there’s a new image already being crafted. “Manufacturing is cool. It’s not smokestacks anymore,” said […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), the author of legislation to ensure that armor plates for America’s military is truly “Made in America,” announced on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Defense restored a 35-year rule requiring that steel purchased by the U.S. military be 100 percent domestically produced. The rule, originally overturned […]
SCOTT SHANE Small business may be the most popular institution in America. According to a 2012 poll conducted on behalf of the Public Affairs Council, 88 percent of Americans view small business favorably. In fact, 68 percent of us would rather pay more to do business with a small business than a big one. Could America’s […]
By Ben Casselman American factories are hiring again. But they aren’t hiring women. Manufacturing, one of the hardest-hit sectors during the recession, has been a leader in the recovery, although as today’s mixed durable goods number shows, the sector has been on shakier ground of late. U.S. factories have added […]
Senator cosponsors Bring Jobs Home Act that rewards companies bringing jobs back to U.S. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is backing a measure to boost job creation by rewarding companies that “insource” jobs to the U.S., while ending tax breaks for those companies shipping jobs overseas. The Bring […]
Harry Saltzgaver Long Beach Transit’s board voted Monday to award an $11.5 million contract for 10 all-electric buses to a firm whose parent company is Chinese-owned, noting that the bid complies with Made In America specifications and touting its large experience edge over the second bidder. BYD Motors, the […]
Adam Shell, NEW YORK — The benefits of the Made-in-the-USA marketing tagline now apply to stocks as well as shoes, SUVs and software. How so? With Europe hobbled by debt, white-hot China cooling and emerging markets slowing, stocks of U.S. companies that get most of their revenue from U.S.-based sales are performing better than companies […]
Flickr photo courtesy of Erich Ferdinand Howard A. Tullman It’s not just that shipping is expensive and labor costs are rising. The move away from ‘things’ is much more basic. Is the end of traditional manufacturing in sight? Should the last person out of tonight’s late shift turn off […]
Rod Nickel (Reuters) – The United States must bring its country-of-origin meat labeling rules into compliance with a earlier World Trade Organization ruling by May 23, 2013, according to a WTO decision on Tuesday, the Canadian government said. The WTO ruled on June 29 that the U.S. country-of-origin labeling […]
Michele Nash-Hoff There are numerous ideas and recommendations on how we could create jobs but most job creation programs proposed involve either increased government spending or reductions in income or employment taxes at a time of soaring budget deficits and decreased government revenue. Other recommendations would require legislation to change policies […]
