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This Column Was 100% Made in America

By STUART ELLIOTT  Published: February 15, 2012 BLUE-COLLAR workers in fields like manufacturing — particularly when they make products on American soil — are again becoming a favorite subject for white-collar workers on Madison Avenue. The trend was born of the economic worries that followed the financial crisis in 2008. Recently, it is gaining steam — appropriate, [...]

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

David Paul – President, Fiscal Strategies Group  -  Posted: 02/13/2012 8:30 am Apple aficionados suffered a blow a couple of weeks ago. All of those beautiful products, it turns out, are the product of an industrial complex that is nothing if not one step removed from slave labor. But of course there is nothing new [...]

Dumping China for American Job Shops

By Parija Kavilanz @CNNMoney  February 13, 2012: 11:51 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. small businesses that initially rushed to Chinese factories to get their products made are now dumping them for American manufacturers. And the shift is gaining traction, said industry experts who match U.S. small companies with domestic firms. Mitch Free, the founder and CEO of [...]

GE to Hire 5,000 U.S. Veterans, Investing in Plants

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Electric Co plans to hire 5,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years and to invest $580 million to expand its aviation footprint in the United States this year. The largest U.S. conglomerate unveiled the moves ahead of a four-day meeting it is convening in Washington starting on Monday to [...]

Paramount Sleep licenses bedding brands to Cannon Sleep Products

Tuesday, February 07, 2012  By: Furniture World Magazine  Paramount Sleep announced that Fresno, Calif., bedding manufacturer Cannon Sleep Products has licensed its bedding brands. Cannon is licensed to manufacture and distribute the products in California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. Cannon also has signed a license with Paramount to manufacture and sell A.H. Beard, an Australian luxury [...]

‘Made in China’ Is Starting to Get Too Expensive

By Brian Stoffel for the The Motley Fool   American workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts. Seem like an overly bold statement to make? Consider a recent study published by the Boston Consulting Group entitled Made in America, Again. The study makes just that assertion. And what happens when you combine lower productivity with [...]

China Raw Material Exports Broke Trade Rules WTO Says

Ruling affects bauxite, coking coal, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc. The World Trade Organization on Jan 30. upheld its ruling that Chinese restrictions on key raw material exports broke trade rules following an appeal by Beijing. China must bring its duty and export quota measures on elements including magnesium [...]

Made in USA: 30 Day Journey

Josh Miller of ‘Made in USA: 30 Day Journey‘ is asking us one simple question. “We’re willing to DIE for our country, but are we willing to BUY for it?” Josh and his film crew will set out on a journey in which he will live off USA made products for 30 days. During his [...]

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

By NYT  CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA  Published: January 25, 2012 The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the [...]

In The Era of Big Boxes, a Day For The Little Guy

  By AMY SANCETTA  – Wed, Jan 25, 2012 7:33 AM EST CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio (AP) — It began quietly, as an email to 40 friends. But when a steady stream of customers began coming through the door before the family-owned Chagrin Hardware had even opened for the day on Saturday, it was clear that it had [...]

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