Manufacturing Jobs

Responsible Private Equity Investors Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Marco Trbovich | Posted 05.17.2012

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Michael Peck, chairman of Isofoton North America, a 60-year-old Spanish solar firm investing in solar facilities in western Ohio, asserted that having a truly sustainable economy guided by ESG principles means changing how the culture views workers.

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Manufacture, Baby, Manufacture?

Evan Soltas | Posted 05.16.2012

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Over the past two decades, the intercept had been largely in negative territory -- normally between -2 and -5, with the severe manufacturing contraction during the 2000 recession seeing a moment in which the intercept hit -15 for the year.

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Manufacturing Jobs

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.15.2012

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We can make a major dent in the jobless rate by providing unemployed workers with the skills they need to fill an estimated 600,000 vacancies in manufacturing today -- a number that continues to grow.

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Detroit Shows Big Job Growth In One Sector

Posted 05.09.2012

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Reversing the trend of the previous decade, Detroit has added more manufacturing jobs in the last two years than all but one other metropolitan area i...

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The Rebirth of American Manufacturing

Yul Kwon | Posted 05.01.2012

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Like a lot of people, I had come to accept the conventional wisdom that America doesn't make anything anymore. What I discovered is that the prevailing narrative of decline and decay is overly simplistic and, in some ways, flat-out wrong.

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Manufacturing Companies Considering Moving Jobs Back To U.S. From China, Survey Finds

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.22.2012

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Manufacturing work might actually be coming back to America. More than one-third of executives at big manufacturing firms say they're either consid...

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The National Manufacturing Strategy Debate

Dave Johnson | Posted 04.14.2012

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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?

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Why The New Jobs Are Worse Than The Old Ones

Tavis Smiley | Posted 04.12.2012

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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.

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Who's Hiring?

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 04.09.2012

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Friday's jobs report showed that fewer-than-expected positions were added in March. But several industries that have driven a lot of the hiring over the last year continued to add workers last month. Who's been hiring, and which industries have the kind of business fundamentals that could pave the way for adding more jobs?

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A Mixed Economic Picture

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 04.09.2012

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The recent run-up in the stock market was in large measure due to the easy credit environment driven by zero interest rates here, a short-term central bank bailout in Europe, and quantitative easing by most central banks.

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Manufacturing Is Different

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 04.02.2012

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There is a reason our competitors are so committed to manufacturing -- they recognize that manufacturing is the foundation of a modern nation's economy.

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American Manufacturing Has Declined More Than Most Experts Have Thought

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 05.28.2012

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A new report released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) presents a strong case that manufacturing has declined more during the last decade than it did during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Manufacturing Pain Far From Over

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

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* Investment in foreign plants rising, domestic falling * Manufacturing job recovery minimal * Fewer service jobs remain...

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What's Helping To Boost The Job Market

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — A resurgent U.S. job market that has lifted the economy appears to be enduring. Factories in the Northeast kept hiring in early Ma...

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Obama Speaks On Jobless Numbers, Economy

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.09.2012

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HOUSTON — Raising campaign cash in Republican territory, President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a rebounding economy and accused Republicans of...

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Help Wanted: Skilled Manufacturing Workers

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 04.22.2012

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The U.S. economy is gathering momentum and the key driver is manufacturing. Not only is our industrial sector growing, but after more than a decade of losses in manufacturing jobs, we are actually going in the other direction.

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Manufacturing: Why We Should Help the Sector (But Not Too Much)

Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.21.2012

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For many years, policy makers and public officials have argued about whether public policy should help promote American manufacturing or whether we should leave it alone and let the market do what it will. As usual, such stark positions have little to do with reality.

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Manufacturing Illusions

Robert Reich | Posted 04.18.2012

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Suddenly, manufacturing is back -- at least on the election trail. But don't be fooled. The real issue isn't how to get manufacturing back. It's how to get good jobs and good wages back. They aren't at all the same thing.

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This Just Isn't 'Sexy' Anymore

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.16.2012

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President Obama has made it a top priority to bring manufacturing jobs back home to the United States. But if he succeeds, he might have a tough time ...

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Insourcing Jobs More Fluke Than Trend?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 02.15.2012

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President Barack Obama stressed the importance of "insourcing" jobs once lost to foreign countries back to the United States during a trip to Wisconsi...

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"Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" -- They Both Need It and Deserve It

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 04.15.2012

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The erosion of our manufacturing base continues even as economists like Christina Romer urge us to do nothing. But doing nothing is not an option now. In fact, we haven't a moment to lose.

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Bringing Solar Manufacturing Back

Usha Haley | Posted 04.14.2012

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The U.S. created the solar industry, yet today, China accounts for three-fifths of the world's solar-panel production and exports 95 percent of its production. Against this backdrop, an epic battle is occurring.

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Can Manufacturing Jobs Come Back? What We Should Learn From Apple and Foxconn

David Paul | Posted 04.14.2012

If Americans care about where their products are made, companies will care. Therefore, even as the president promoted tax credits for insourcing -- the new word for bringing those jobs back -- perhaps another step would be to build on the power of choice.

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How to Save the Manufacturing Sector

Daniel Burrus | Posted 04.07.2012

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The manufacturing sector is transforming rapidly. Today's manufacturers must transform along with the rest of the world by adopting six advanced next generation manufacturing principles

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Why Most U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Gone Forever: The Fiscal Times

The Fiscal Times | MERRILL GOOZNER | Posted 02.05.2012

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The day after the State of the Union Address, President Obama visited a Phoenix suburb to tour Intel’s still-under-construction computer chip manufa...

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