by Robert Borosage | Aug 21, 2009 | Blog
When Bloomberg reported the Obama Administration was about to name Ron Bloom, now head of the auto task force, as a de facto “manufacturing czar” in the National Economic Council, the chattering heads on the right had the expected knee jerk reaction. Investor's...
by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog
This week, the NBC/WSJ poll was knocked for dropping the word "choice" from its monthly question about the public health insurance plan option, which led to a drop in support for the idea. Today, Huffington Post reports SurveyUSA has a new poll out showing a whopping...
by Bill Scher | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog
Today, the Institute for America's Future released a new report by policy architect of the public health insurance option Jacob Hacker, sizing up the existing House and Senate bills, and the expected compromise out of the bipartisan Senate Finance Committee talks. The...
by Steven Capozzola | Aug 20, 2009 | Blog
Bloomberg News reports that the Obama administration may elevate Ron Bloom, head of the government’s auto task force, to a job that would set U.S. manufacturing policy more broadly. The U.S. desperately needs a national industrial policy, including strong enforcement...
by Steven Capozzola | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has done it again. In contrast to their stated interest in supporting American manufacturers, they’ve criticized someone who wants to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. In a recent item, NAM praises Dan Ikenson’s criticism...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 19, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Last week Harold Meyerson wrote a great column in the Washington Post, Just One Word: Factories, promoting American manufacturing. Meyerson wrote, “Since 1987, manufacturing as a share of our gross domestic product has declined 30 percent. Once the world's leading net...
