Editors note: An article on interesting recent research about the shape of the labor market and the impact of manufacturing loss. More evidence that you cannot build a strong economy based upon jobs only college educated and service workers. For decades, workers migrated to big cities in America that promised abundant jobs and decent wages…
Editors note: this is good news Furniture manufacturer Design Foundry LLC plans to hire more than 200 workers to staff its new factory in North Carolina, state commerce officials announced this week. [Andy Szal | January 10, 2019 |Thomas Net] The facility in Hickory, North Carolina, will produce upholstered furniture as part of a partnership…
Editors note: Representative Blumenauer has more globalist views of trade policy. Representative Pascrell has stronger fair trade/trade hawk views in comparison. The House Ways & Means Committee will elect its trade subcommittee leadership next week, several members told Inside U.S. Trade on Thursday. [Isabelle Hoagland |January 10, 2019 | Inside US Trade] Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer (OR)…
Editor’s note: This article, written by a “blue collar conservative”, shows the trade policy divide within the GOP in relation to the globalist conservatives. Trade talks between China and the United States concluded this week with every indication that a deal can be had. Success is still far from a foregone conclusion, and the thorny international issues…
Editors note: This reciprocal tariff bill idea is a good one because the WTO system has locked the United States into treating all trade competitors the same, regardless of whether they have high or low tariffs. Such a bill would also further the end of the WTO system, potentially. President Donald Trump would gain line-by-line power to…