by Tom Conway | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Trade
Mickey Ray Williams keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Ala., conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or possibly all,...
by Tom Conway | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured, Infrastructure
Photo credit: Matthew Matheson / flickr / cc Bad news about infrastructure is as ubiquitous as potholes. Failures in a 108-year-old railroad bridge and tunnel cost New York commuters thousands of hours in delays. Illinois doesn’t regularly inspect, let alone fix,...
by Tom Conway | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured, Future of Work
Donald Trump: billionaire of the people. When he ran for office, he said, “The American worker will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” And how’s that working out for the American worker? Not very well, actually, not very well. When it...
