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Actor John Ratzenberger and Elite Aviation Products to Testify Before House Small Business Committee

May 9, 2016
Elite will share its reshoring efforts (bringing manufacturing jobs back to America) and forward-looking strategies to address the impending shortage of skilled labor to support the growing domestic manufacturing sector including a robust Veterans training …
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Partnership Bank names board member

May 9, 2016
“Recently, the U.S. has seen a 115-percent increase in manufacturing reshoring from Asia alone,” he added. “To meet demands, businesses are again investing in growth. Partnership Bank must be there to support small-to-mid-sized businesses. Community …
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Kathleen Parker: Full-blown Republican identity crisis: Signed, sealed … delivered in July

May 9, 2016
If people were outraged about immigration, why, then he’d build a wall. If they were upset about manufacturing jobs lost overseas, well, fine, he’d kill the trade agreements. Trump was never about principle but about winning, the latter of which he …
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Voters Are Angry This Year. No They Aren’t! Yes They Are!

May 8, 2016
This disconnect is precisely the thing I’m interested in. Sure, blue-collar workers are angry about the loss of manufacturing jobs. College grads are angry about high student debt. But there are always people who are angry about the economy. The question …
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US Manufacturing Needs More Highly Skilled Immigrants

May 8, 2016
Any reshoring effort would be for naught. Now, if the talent we need isn’t in America, where is it? The talent is abundant in Asia because that’s where all the manufacturing work went. Asian countries haven’t just been manufacturing products at a …
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Made by China: the UK is on the frontline of the next industrial revolution

May 6, 2016
Wages are being undercut at the bottom by other emerging markets and at the top by developed market companies reshoring their manufacturing operations. “The Chinese government is desperately trying to think about how to upgrade and reinvent its …
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Unlike Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton Lacks A Simple, Clear Economic Message

May 6, 2016
She needs to tell voters why they are struggling. “Why are we not competitive? Why do we not have manufacturing jobs?” said Lake. “We’re Americans after all. We’re supposed to be able to ensure the next generation has a better chance. That’s why all of our …
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More Economic Anecdotes That ‘Something’ Changed In The Middle Of Last Year

May 6, 2016
In August last year, Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) announced that it was moving manufacturing jobs back to America from Mexico. The truck and equipment company had entered what is called the “vocational truck” business back in 2011 but in a partnership with …
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Jacked-up auto prices and recession risk: What a Trump presidency could mean for your personal finances

May 5, 2016
“If he deported all 11 million, it could lead to a recession. It would be a mess.” Repatriating foreign earnings and possibly enacting some corporate tax reform, as Trump has discussed, could bolster stocks and benefit investors. Companies have twice …
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Congressman meets with Ramona groups

May 3, 2016
Hunter talked about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and said tens of millions of jobs between California and Florida are gone, calling it “total Wall Street corporatization.” He said the U.S. is on an unfair playing field when it comes to trade …
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