Posted 3 days ago
Batchelder is producing 1,000 of Santorum's signature sweater vests at his Bemidji Woolen Mills in Minnesota, the fourth-generation small business owner is well-versed in the candidate's "Made in America" message and couldn't be more pleased.
Posted 3 days ago
No matter how this gets sliced, if the customer doesn’t want green cars, or plug in electrics they become a very expensive gamble that did not pay off.
Posted 4 days ago
Last week, Intel said it plans to spend $12.5 billion in capital spending in 2012, in large part to build and outfit these fabs. In an era where much manufacturing is done overseas, it's great to see leading manufacturing in the United States.
Posted 4 days ago
....More than 8,700 industrial engineers are required to oversee the iPhone supply chain. In the United States, it would have taken nine months to find that many engineers. In China, it took 15 days. That is a damning indictment of the American education system if a company cannot find enough skilled workers to build an iPhone. Skilled workers are supposed to be America's strength, while the common explanation is that our lack of unskilled workers and uncompetitive wages are the real problem.
Posted 6 days ago
Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.
Posted 6 days ago
For instance, while 85% of the apple juice Americans drink is imported, only about 7% of the apples they eat are. Andy Jerardo, an economist at the USDA, says that's because the juice often comes from China, which produces apples that are inferior for snacking but good for drinking. About 16.8% of the food that Americans eat is imported from other countries, according to the Department of Agriculture.
Posted 8 days ago
A year to pick a candidate, that eventually will be decided by a handful of delegates and super-delegates, but not the people.
Posted 9 days ago
President Obama's rejection Wednesday of rapid approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas triggered Republican and business community objections but also signs from Obama and the pipeline company that the issue was far from over.
Posted 10 days ago
Instead of joining long line of people bemoaning the lack of made-in-America items, the Simons took action. Admittedly, a small action they say, but a way to show pride in American businesses and patriotism in the USA.
Posted 14 days ago
"I have really tried to do my research," she says. "Every product I have marked as 'Made in America' has been both assembled and made of American products.