DONGXIANPO, China — Just outside the southwest border of Beijing, a new coal-fired power and heating plant is rising in Dongxianpo, a rural town in Hebei Province. Cement mixers roll onto the site. Cranes tower above a landscape of metal girders. [ by Edward Wong | November 11, 2015 | NY Times ] When…
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United Steelworkers (USW) confirmed a unanimous vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to sustain anti-dumping duties on steel plate imports from China that are protecting thousands of American union steelworker jobs at plate mills in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana. [Reposted from PR Newswire | November 10,…
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week. [ by David Dayen | November 6, 2015 | The Intercept ] In what may be the biggest…
Fresh discontent is surfacing over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that Canada signed in the dying days of Stephen Harper’s government – uneasiness that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals must confront as the job of ratifying the accord falls to them. [ by Steven Chase | October 29, 2015 | The Globe and Mail ] Mayors…
Jim Balsillie warns that provisions tucked into the Trans-Pacific Partnership could cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars — and eventually make signing it the worst public policy decision in the country’s history. [ by Andy Blatchford | November 8, 2015 | The Canadian Press on CBC News ] After poring over the treaty’s…
On Thursday, November 6th, nearly 500 business leaders, educators, career counselors, and economic and workforce development professionals attended the San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP) conference on “Identifying, Tackling, and Closing the Skills Gap.” This conference was a follow up to the one-day conference held in October 2014 where reports analyzing five industry sectors vital to…
The candidate who declared the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be one of three essential “pillars” of a Rubio Presidency—is now taking issue with a Wall Street Journal news report that lists Rubio as supporting the unpopular Obamatrade pact he voted to fast-track. [Reposted from Breitbart | Julia Hahn | November 8, 2015] The Wall Street Journal…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 11, 2015 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145, [email protected] Washington, DC ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released today “A Competitiveness Strategy for the United States – America at a Crossroads.” “Across the USA, localities and states employ plans to attract jobs,” said Brian O’Shaughnessy, CPA Chief Co-Chair…
The re-enserfment of Western peoples is taking place on several levels. One about which I have been writing for more than a decade comes from the offshoring of jobs. Americans, for example, have a shrinking participation in the production of the goods and services that are marketed to them. [Reposted from Paul Craig Roberts | …
Many in Congress have been concerned about the effect of currency manipulation on our country’s ability to sell things to the world. They demanded that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) outlaw the practice. The administration promised that the TPP and accompanying side agreements would do that. [Reposted from Campaign for America’s Future | Dave Johnson | …