Insourcing. That's at the top of my trending list for 2012. But, how do we make reshoring -- bringing jobs back from overseas -- real?
Ann Lee | Posted 01.09.2012 | Business
Whether it is nurturing more innovation, retraining unemployed workers, or reining in our addiction to debt, the only thing standing in the way of the U.S. from solving its problems is U.S. leadership.
Stacy Mitchell | Posted 12.09.2011 | Business
The six Waltons, heirs to Walmart founder Sam Walton, not only have a net worth equal to the combined wealth of the bottom 30 percent of Americans, but they also own and control nearly half of Walmart, the world's largest corporation. That's an astounding fact.
Jane White | Posted 12.05.2011 | Business
The most important deficiency among Democrats and Republicans alike is the lack of awareness of the "inconvenient economic truth" that the time-honored remedies to our woes -- whether they are tax cuts or government stimulus packages -- are irrelevant in this global economy.
Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 01.10.2012 | Politics
If we are to build upon the Arab Spring, the liberation of the Libyan people, and the flowering of individual rights around the world, our work starts at home, by defending American manufacturers and the American jobs they create.
Thomas J. Duesterberg | Posted 01.02.2012 | Business
Recent research on the value accruing to different elements of the Apple supply chain show that the U.S. inventors of i-Products capture most of the economic value, including wages, embedded in their products.
Bob Hagan | Posted 12.25.2011 | Politics
Whether the American Jobs Act ultimately passes or is killed in Congress by the GOP, simply having the debate about the role government should play in the economy is critically important on the eve of the 2012 elections.
Dean Baker | Posted 12.25.2011 | Business
Since it would be rude to imply that CEOs are not being honest when they complain about the lack of skilled workers, we should assume that they don't know how to raise wages.
Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 12.25.2011 | Politics
It's hard to believe that nearly four years into the worst Recession since the Second World War, while mired in a jobless recovery of unprecedented length and magnitude, we continue to hear that manufacturing jobs don't matter.
Thomas J. Duesterberg | Posted 12.19.2011 | Business
There is a more positive economic and political case to be made that, instead of accepting a slow decline, we put our shoulder to the wheel and build on the apparently hidden but obvious strengths of U.S. manufacturing.
Posted 12.12.2011 | Business
U.S. manufacturers are failing to fill thousands of vacant jobs, surprising when 14 million people are searching for work. Technology giant Sie...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.07.2011 | Business
China's swelling manufacturing sector has had Americans worried for a while. Labor has been cheap and plentiful in China, and for much of the past ...
Paul A. London | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics
The economic story that the Republican Party is peddling to American voters is profoundly unpatriotic and dead wrong.
Tim Robertson | Posted 12.04.2011 | Politics
Obama is ignoring growing opposition from his Democratic base and voters across the political spectrum to resurrect policies Congress has refused to approve for over four years. And to get his message across, he's using every trick in the book.
D.A. Barber | Posted 11.08.2011 | Green
if you're going to "rebuild America," shouldn't you use the latest, high-tech sustainable technology?
HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.08.2011 | Business
Last month, after watching his manufacturing shop struggle through 10 years of decline, Frank Shannon finally decided it was time to close the doors. ...
InvestingAnswers | Posted 11.07.2011 | Business
These middle-class professions may soon face the fate of the milk man, the telegraph operator, the stagecoach driver and the switchboard operator, joining them in obsolete-job heaven.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis voiced some early support for President Barack Obama's much-anticipated jobs plan on Wednesday, saying that ...
Ed Lawler | Posted 10.24.2011 | Business
Numerous politicians have stated that the number one concern of the U.S. government should be to focus on jobs, particularly within the manufacturing sector. There are a number of reasons that prove otherwise.
Tim Robertson | Posted 10.22.2011 | Politics
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk doesn't believe many middle-class manufacturing jobs will be a part of America's future. Like many free trade proponents, he views the loss of these jobs as inevitable.
Jim Gonzalez | Posted 10.11.2011 | Politics
Instead of focusing on building our manufacturing base, the backbone of middle class prosperity, our national leaders focused instead on the financial services sectors.
David Coates | Posted 10.11.2011 | Politics
With Congress in recess and our lawmakers now back in their districts, there is presumably a slight chance of meeting one of them in the street.
Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 10.10.2011 | Business
After dominating the globe for over 60 years as the world's largest, most productive, and technologically advanced in the world, America's manufacturing sector is in a decline in nearly all industries.
Rob Kall | Posted 10.03.2011 | Business
Is more buying, more consuming what the U.S. needs to recover from the economic straits we're in? Maybe it's time to turn the economy upside down, to ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 09.25.2011 | Business
Amidst new research showing historic disparity in wealth between whites and minorities, President Obama is facing plummeting approval over his jobs ag...
Scott Paul | Posted 01.12.2012 | Business