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Can Employee-Owned Companies Reboot the Economy? – TIME

November 19, 2013

Britt Erlanson / Getty Images The American worker is doing so well. The median wage earner’s pay hasn’t grown in years, while most economic growth is being captured only by the already wealthy. While these problems are well-documented, finding a solution for the average wage-earner’s plight has been more difficult. In a new book out […]

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Globalization Isn’t Dead, It’s Only Just Beginning – TIME

November 19, 2013

There’s been a lot of talk these days that globalization is dead, even reversing – and for good reason. It seems that many of the factors that had been driving globalization have run out of steam. The growth of trade, which has long outpaced the expansion of the world economy, has slowed in recent years. […]

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‘Made in America’ comeback gets help from L.A., Walmart, Martha Stewart – Los Angeles Daily News

November 19, 2013

Bradshaw Kirchofer Handmade Furniture makes furniture that is hand-crafted from solid wood at its Torrance workshop. (Photo by Steve McCrank/Daily Breeze) Inside the Torrance factory of Bradshaw Kirchofer, carpenters are transforming straw-colored pine into reproductions of old English farmhouse bedroom furniture. One worker […]

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Pakistan offers huge incentives to foreign investors: PM – The News International

November 18, 2013

BANKOK: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has said that his government is committed to accelerated digitization of the country to enable socioeconomic development‚ to create a knowledge-based economy and promoting economic growth.   In his key-note address at the Connect Asia Pacific Summit 2013‚ which began in Bangkok on Monday morning‚ he said the Pakistani […]

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A comeback for ‘Made in America,’ and Southern California factories have a … – Daily Breeze

November 18, 2013

Bradshaw Kirchofer Handmade Furniture makes furniture that is hand-crafted from solid wood at its Torrance workshop. (Photo by Steve McCrank/Daily Breeze) Inside the Torrance factory of Bradshaw Kirchofer, carpenters are transforming straw-colored pine into reproductions of old English farmhouse bedroom furniture. One worker hammers a nail into the top of a bedside table, while another […]

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What’s Next After the Emerging-Market Gold Rush Ends? – AdAge.com

November 18, 2013

A gold mine for marketers through the past decade, developing economies have lost some of their shimmer. The past year has shaved two to three percentage points off growth rates for countries such as China and India. By most projections, emerging markets are never again likely to grow as fast as they have the past […]

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As costs in China rise, some manufacturing jobs return to USA – Tampabay.com

November 15, 2013

I-Con Systems, a Seminole County company that makes plumbing control systems for correctional institutions, had been manufacturing its components in China for about a decade when CEO Shawn Bush began thinking about moving manufacturing operations back to Florida. Like most other manufacturers, Bush says he was originally lured to China by lower labor costs, but […]

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Reshoring King Has Some Company in US Manufacturing Trend – MetalMiner

November 15, 2013

Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative, sat down with us after speaking at Commodity/PROcurement EDGE to chat about his passion that gets him out of bed every morning: reshoring manufacturing jobs to the United States. Man, for a guy that does, by his own count, hundreds of speaking engagements a year in the name […]

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Big grant — big goal: Funding looks to bring back manufacturing jobs – Mississippi Business Journal (blog)

November 15, 2013

Big grant — big goal: Funding looks to bring back manufacturing jobs The state is looking to recoup manufacturing jobs, and got good news lately with the announcement of the landing of a nearly $2 million federal grant. The U.S. Department of Labor awarded the grant to Mississippi State University and partners to fund projects […]

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Joe Kennedy touts businesses/government partnering for a "bigger and bolder … – Mansfield News

November 14, 2013

 Back home from Washington, D.C. and the government shutdown, freshman Congressman Joe Kennedy III reassured members of the Tri-Town Chamber of Commerce last week that government can work and that it works best when it with partners with business. The Massachusetts Democrat said the alliance spurs a “bigger and bolder” growth in the economy. “We […]

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