Billy Thompson has tried vehemently to keep the entire supply chain of his T-shirt company located in the United States, but doing so is proving harde...
More than two thirds of manufacturers are having difficulty finding skilled employees. We cannot stand by hoping someone else will solve our skills gap crisis. Industry, government and educators need to work together to implement solutions that work.
Multinational corporations are aggressively pursuing a stealthy campaign to eliminate taxes on their "foreign" profits. Of course, such a policy is contrary to the Obama administration's objective to create jobs and will hurt domestic companies that have to pay taxes on their profits.
I am also a product of the middle class whose only real path to success was through my education, my imagination and my ability to execute. Honestly, these values I believe are basic human values and basic American values. That's why I believe in a strong middle class.
American manufacturing is like apple pie to American voters: we love it and want more of it regardless of our politics, race, gender, income, or hometown.
Forget the debate over outsourcing. The real question is how to make Americans so competitive that all global companies -- whether or not headquartered in the United States -- will create good jobs in America.
It's a shame that many Americans think that what makes America great is the fact that one needs not have a college degree -- that the dream is to sit back and demand that some government bureaucrat create a job for you.
The Obama administration recently describing the vital importance of a healthy manufacturing sector to our economy. But others say promoting manufacturing won't help revive our economy. So what's the story?
Every month since 2001, the United States has lost an average of 50,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs. Almost seven out of every ten of those lost jobs were in the construction, truck driving, warehouse or other blue-collar sectors.
We're not going to rev up our economy's job creation capacity in just a few years. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something - usually themselves.
If we fail to become the voice for both the planet and workers, our movement risks losing the support of increasing numbers of workers, unions and their political allies.
What makes sense from a democratic perspective may not make sense from a moral point of view. Or so it was suggested earlier today at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos.
WASHINGTON -- For the second year in a row, Congress must decide during the holiday season whether to renew federal jobless benefits for people out of...
How does a startup know when the time is right to leverage the private company stock market? Although there is no clear-cut formula, certain indicators, such as number of shareholders, the age of the startup, and market traction can be utilized.
Many Americans are unaware that the U.S. public stock markets no longer support growth-stage companies. Systemic changes have caused companies to remain private far longer than in previous decades.
From the tone of the conversation on America's unemployed, I can imagine myself at a lawn party, listening to the lady in the flowered hat talk about the difficulty of finding decent help.
We're not just creating overseas jobs at an astounding rate, we're off-shoring the innovation and the know-how that we need to lay the groundwork for the future of the American economy.
(No. 11 in Huffington Post's America Needs Jobs series.)
"Buy American" -- it's one of the most common suggestions I get from readers emailing me wit...
Do you live to work, or do you work to live? I look forward to a Labor Day where every worker has a job, every worker has a pension, every worker has paid vacations, and every worker has the health care to enjoy life.
Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country's largest business process outs...
According to Republicans, tax-cuts solve all economic problems. According to Democrats , massive government spending in times of economic contraction is a necessary. Let us test both premises.
As billions of dollars will be poured into Haiti's rebuilding, there's absolutely nothing anywhere that comes even close to what Roundhouse Technology offers in every respect.