In Trade, Too Often, the Victim is Blamed
Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard USW International President A screwy thing happened after the United Steelworkers and eight domestic steel producers won their trade case late in December against...
View ArticleMade In America
Scott N. Paul By Scott Paul Executive Director of Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) Made in America seems to be all the rage in the Capitol right now. Rahm Emanuel promised us that we’d be...
View ArticleThe Storm that Created the Rust Belt is Heading for Silicon Valley
Dave Johnson By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future This fall I was invited to cover the the Keep It Made In America Tour put on by the Alliance for American Manufacturing. I spent a...
View ArticleTwo Cheers for Germany
Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American ProspectCharles Lane has taken me to task for my repeated championing of the German economic model – a topic, he notes, to which I return as frequently as...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Post-Industrial Prosperity
By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect Of all the lies that the American people have been told the past four decades, the biggest one may be this: We’ll all come out ahead in the...
View ArticleFinding Common Ground On the Economy
By Kenneth Davis President, Economic Strategy Associates, Inc. Let’s face it, we’re living in very unusual economic times. We’re losing badly to import competition in a trade war in our own U.S....
View ArticleThe Plain Truth on Auto Jobs
By Scott N. Paul Director, AAM In this “Jobs Election,” voters deserve to know the truth about the U.S. auto industry. The Obama Administration’s auto rescue preserved hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleLack of National Industrial Policy Bankrupted Detroit
Stewart Acuff Labor Organizer, Author The Radical Rightwing is licking their chops over the economic and financial failure of what was once the great city of Detroit, at one time perhaps the greatest...
View ArticleAmerica Deserves A Solar Manufacturing Industry
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future America used to manufacture silicon chips. Now much of that industry has moved to China. Solar-panel manufacturing will be a huge industry of the...
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