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 […]
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 […]
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney predicted that President Barack Obama will “bypass Congress” when necessary in 2014, taking unilateral executive action to carry out his agenda. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” ahead of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Carney was asked how the president could get things done this year, when Republicans in […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Mike Thompson’s (D-St. Helena) bipartisan provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be 100-percent manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies that are 100-percent of grown, produced or manufactured in the United States, was passed by the House […]
From 2010, here is the 100,000th Honda Civic produced at the Honda Manufacturing of Indiana plant in Greensburg, Ind. Honda now exports more than imports (Photo: Wieck) DETROIT — For the first time since building its first Accord in Marysville, Ohio, Honda exported more U.S-made cars than it imported from Japan […]
