The Department of Labor reported this morning that America’s manufacturing sector added 8,000 jobs in February. [Reposted from the blog of the Alliance for American Manufacturing | March 6, 2014] The #AAMeter, which tracks President Obama’s promise to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term, progressed to +383,000 jobs, after revisions to…
To the Editor: Re “Congress’s Critical Role on Trade” (editorial, March 2): You write, “Congress has a responsibility to give the American negotiators clear instructions on what it would like to see” in a trade agreement. We agree, but in the case of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, those instructions are five years late. [Reposted from the…
Freshmen GOP Reps. Tom Emmer (above) of Minnesota and Mimi Walters of California tried to get all the GOP freshmen to sign a letter supporting an enormous increase in President executive authority through Fast Track. I didn’t really work. Only 26 of the 46 GOP freshmen would sign the letter (see PDF). Twenty refused to…
Trade is great. We all trade. A lot of us trade labor for money that buys other things. A farmer trades corn for money that buys other things, and so on. No one is “against trade.” [Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog | Dave Johnson | March 9, 2014] But is anything called…
U.S. Census BureauU.S. Bureau of Economic AnalysisNEWSU.S. Department of Commerce * Washington, DC 20230U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICESJanuary 2015 * See below for links to data tables and supplementary materials. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that the goods and services…
