Week in Review: Obama talked up Made in America, US is losing high-tech jobs to Asia, and more.
Posted by Anonymous on 01/20/2012
President Obama talked up “Made in America”, and Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Executive Director Scott Paul urged him to keep talking about it in the State of the Union.
According to a new report by the U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC), domestic U.S. manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to sell into their own lucrative home market.
Carl Pope discussed America’s dirty war on manufacturing.
We took a look at manufacturing capacity between 2000 and the present.
A new report from the National Science Board (NSB) showed that the U.S. has lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, and is losing its lead in science and technology in the global marketplace.
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