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POLITICS
Donald Trump Is One Of China's Best Customers
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
Trump has had countless chances to put his money where his mouth is. Yet he hasn't.
POLITICS
Burn the TPP
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
Division and diversion help the one percent capture government, securing policies that further enrich the rich, like trickle-down economics under which no benefits ever actually descend, bailouts for Wall Street but not Main Street and job-destroying trade deals like NAFTA and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership.
BUSINESS
Five Tests Walmart Must Pass to Show Its 'Made in America' Street Cred
By Scott Paul, Contributor
President, Alliance for American Manufacturing
Let's look at the company's big, shiny $250 billion commitment to American-made products. Sound like a big number? It is. But just like the endless aisles at your local Supercenter, everything is big with Walmart.
POLITICS
No More Subsidizing Corporate Tax Cheats
By Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Contributors
Too many American corporations have recently sought to renounce their corporate citizenship and reincorporate as a citizen of another country in order to avoid paying a fair share of taxes. The technical term for this practice is an "inversion," but it really is a perversion of our tax laws.
WORLDPOST
TPP Would Gut Buy American: Happy July 4th!
By Lori Wallach, Contributor
Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
'Buy American' would be gutted, and American jobs lost, under the TPP, the sweeping "trade" deal that President Obama says he wants to sign this year with 11 Pacific Rim nations.
BUSINESS
Walmart's Latest 'Buy America' Sham
By Stacy Mitchell, Contributor
Co-Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
In a way, Walmart's Buy America program represents the home stretch of the economic transformation the company set in motion decades ago.
BUSINESS
Stop in the Name of Love - of Country
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
The conduct of the New York State Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in rehabilitating the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge can only be described as anti-American.
BUSINESS
What I Learned on the Bus to Bentonville
By Al Norman, Contributor
Founder, Sprawl-Busters
Thirty-six years after Wal-Mart was founded, an organized group finally went into Mr. Sam's neighborhood to make it clear that the will of the people was to drive Wal-Mart out of hometown America. That's what brought us to Bentonville.
POLITICS
How the Texas Legislature Stuck It to You This Time
By Jason Stanford, Contributor
Democratic strategist and writer
There is not a credible economist out there who can say with a straight face that what the Texas economy needs is a business tax cut, so that's exactly what Rick Perry demanded.
BUSINESS
Wal-Mart Discovers 'Made in America' -- Again
By Al Norman, Contributor
Founder, Sprawl-Busters
We can be sure of one thing: Wal-Mart has promised before that it would Buy American -- and it didn't. Like Sam Walton's promises 20 years ago, Bill Simon's rediscovery of American manufacturing in 2013 isn't worth the paper his press release was printed on.
BUSINESS
The Black Friday Challenge: Buy One American-Made Item
By Scott Paul, Contributor
President, Alliance for American Manufacturing
The day after Thanksgiving, "Black Friday," is also an American tradition, and it's the most visible symptom of what's really dragging down our middle class: we consume too much from overseas, and we don't produce enough here to make up the difference.
SMALL BUSINESS
The Patriotism of Entrepreneurship
By Nick Friedman, Contributor
Co-Founder and President, College Hunks Hauling Junk and Movin...
As a business owner, I have the power to create jobs and help fuel a stalled economy. Beyond the confines of my own business, though, I also have the power to help rejuvenate all the tangential businesses that help my own company run.
BUSINESS
The High Cost of Cheap Imports
By Alan Uke, Contributor
Founder, Underwater Kinetics; author, 'Buying America Back: A ...
A consumer movement aimed at buying American goods, or goods from balanced trade partners, could save our economy. But to do this, we need more accurate information about where things actually come from. We need a detailed country-of-origin label.
POLITICS
Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies
By Zach Carter
POLITICS
Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal
By Zach Carter
POLITICS
Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'
By Zach Carter
MONEY
National Consumer Protection Week: It's Up to You (Sorry!)
By Adam Levin, Contributor
Author of Swiped. Former Director New Jersey Division of Consu...
I'm not suggesting that anyone purchase an inferior product just because it was made in the U.S.A. But if it's a tossup between two products of comparable price and quality, one American and one not, buy American. Here's why.
SAN FRANCISCO
PHOTOS: Shiny New BART Cars Spark Outrage
By Aaron Sankin
POLITICS
Legislation Offers Antidote for Stupidity of Shipping Tax-Dollar-Financed Jobs Overseas
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
Amid prolonged, painfully high unemployment, ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer for the past year tirelessly advocated a simple solution: buy American-made products.
BUSINESS
Job-Creation Idea No. 11: Buy American -- If You Can
By Dan Froomkin
POLITICS
Gallup: Americans Think the Best Way to Create Jobs Is to Protect Manufacturing
By Mike Elk, Contributor
Labor reporter at POLITICO; Member of the Washington Baltimore...
Senate Democrats should go back to the drawing board and do a real job bills that makes America competitive with China by investing in infrastructure with Buy America provisions.
BUSINESS
Toyota's Gift to Detroit
By Andy Ostroy, Contributor
Political and Pop Culture Analyst
Toyota's crisis is the biggest gift to American automakers since the government's bailout eighteen months ago. If Detroit is smart, we'll be hearing a lot of "Buy American" very soon.
POLITICS
Like 5.7% GDP Growth? Pass A Real Jobs Bill.
By Bill Scher, Contributor
Senior Writer, Campaign for America's Future
POLITICS
Before And After Obama's Speech, With Populist Caucus Chair Bruce Braley
By Chris Weigant, Contributor
Political writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com
BUSINESS
A Holiday Wish List That No One Should Fulfill
By Gary Shapiro, Contributor
President and CEO, the Consumer Technology Association
Here are the "top ten" things our government could do in 2010 to reverse our nascent economic recovery. Of course, it shouldn't do any of these things - but its record causes me grave concern.
GREEN
Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore
By Leo W. Gerard, Contributor
International President, United Steelworkers
Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.
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