by Richard Long | Mar 14, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
California Representative John Garamendi held a conference call today to build support for H.R. 949, The Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013, with the Campaign for America’s Future’s Robert Borosage and Dave Johnson. This bill, introduced last week, has bipartisan...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2013 | Blog, Trade
In an earlier post, "ANOTHER Report On Jobs Lost To China 'Trade'" I wrote about a new report titled, "The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment." This report showed that manufacturing employment would have been higher by over 4 million employees...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 5, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
This morning House Democrats introduced 'Buy America' legislation to make sure taxpayer money that is used for transportation purposes gets used to support U.S. manufacturing and create American jobs. The 'Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013' will strengthen Buy...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 28, 2013 | Making it in America
"Buy America" policies work, seriously boosting American manufacturers and helping create American jobs. Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff has a guest-post, Making America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing, at the DOT's Fast Lane. He writes that "Buy...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 11, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America
Before the election President Obama set a goal of doubling exports and creating one million new manufacturing jobs by the end of 2016. What has to happen for these goals to be met? In The State of the Union Stakes Bob Borosage points out the stakes and challenges that...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 8, 2013 | Making it in America
Yet another report is out showing how the trade deficit is costing us millions of jobs and hurting our economy. This report has specific numbers: between 2.2 million and 4.7 million U.S. jobs, between 1 percent and 2.1 percent of the unemployment rate and a gross...
