Sentences with phrase «u.s. manufacturing jobs»

July 31, 2012 Corporate Real Estate 2020 Bold Statement: Bureau of Labor Statistics employment trends support prediction on the re-shoring of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

«We've worked hard to develop legislation that will dramatically reduce CO2 emissions while preserving energy - intensive U.S. manufacturing jobs and protecting consumers from substantially higher electric bills - and I believe that the agreement we've reached will do just that,» said co-author of the agreement Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania.

With that, witness the new AMI: an analysis of cars assembled in the U.S. with high domestic - parts content, predominant U.S. sourcing for engines and transmissions, and high U.S. manufacturing jobs supported per vehicle.

-LRB-...) Mr. Frazier, who is African - American, and Mr. Krzanich and Mr. Plank, who are white, were three of the 28 business and union leaders the president named to the advisory council aimed at helping him boost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

In the 2000s, Chinese imports destroyed 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs.

But when globalization destroyed hundreds of thousands of U.S. manufacturing jobs, few elite policymakers batted an eyelash.

He did it to add U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Trump vows to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he has called «the worst trade deal in history» and blamed for lost U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Even before taking office, Trump has fulfilled his campaign promise to save U.S. manufacturing jobs.

The number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has been on a 30 - year decline.

Not exact matches

PwC, for example, estimates nearly 40 per cent of jobs in the U.S. are at risk due to automation, especially in the transportation, manufacturing and retail industries.

The claim: Trump praisedExxonMobil on March 6 for making a $ 20 billion investment that will create 45,000 construction and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. «This is something that was done, to a large extent, because of our policies and the policies of this new administration, Trump said in a video on March 6.

He is one of the executives President Donald Trump has named to assist in a manufacturing jobs initiative that aims for best practices to bring jobs back to the U.S.

Victor's family immigrated to the U.S. in 1973, when Victor was 7, eventually settling in East Providence, R.I., where his parents made ends meet with manufacturing jobs.

Nearly 4 million U.S. jobs have been lost since NAFTA took effect and since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, according to Robert E. Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

Trump has repeatedly called China out for its currency manipulation, and he's determined to bring manufacturing — and manufacturing jobs — back to the U.S. (Trump has even promised to force Apple to start making its iPhones and iPads in America, though it's unclear how he'd accomplish this.)

Apple plans to start a $ 1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the U.S., CEO Tim Cook told Mad Money host Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

These regional supply chains that power America's car sector, aerospace industry, and numerous other advanced manufacturing facilities support 14 million U.S. jobs, many of them the higher - paying ones Trump repeatedly promises to bring back.

While it has been said for a long time that the U.S. is bleeding manufacturing jobs overseas, particularly to China, some businesses have been moving operations the other way round.

In the six years following China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, the U.S. lost 6 million manufacturing jobs.

But with the advent of the Internet and e-commerce, the decline of U.S. manufacturing and the huge increase in imported goods from Asia, the expansion in U.S. sales jobs begun to recede.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to scrap the trade agreement if it can not be renegotiated to shrink U.S. trade deficits and return manufacturing jobs to the United States.

But the fact that China has lost more manufacturing jobs than the U.S. over the past 20 years is a strong indication that playing hardball with the Chinese isn't going to do anything to increase employment in the United States.

Some of this increase is due to a rise in manufacturing and construction jobs (fields dominated by men), which were the hardest hit in the U.S. during the recession.

«While tariffs in this case will not create adequate cell or module manufacturing to meet U.S. demand, or keep foreign - owned Suniva and SolarWorld afloat, they will create a crisis in a part of our economy that has been thriving, which will ultimately cost tens of thousands of hard - working, blue - collar Americans their jobs,» said SEIA President and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper.

That pact has been accused of syphoning manufacturing jobs from the U.S., while expanding employment overseas, often with poor conditions for workers and weak environmental oversight.

But withdrawing from NAFTA would cost the U.S. auto manufacturing an estimated 31,000 jobs, according to the Center for Automotive Research.

Also Bergh weighs in on bringing manufacturing jobs to the U.S.

The company will continue on the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative to represent our industry, our 15,000 U.S. workers, and to provide input and advice on ways to create jobs and strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.

The aluminum tariff, while supporting 1,900 U.S. aluminum smelting jobs, would cost the country at least 23,000 manufacturing jobs and as much as US$ 45 billion according to a report by Harbor Aluminum Intelligence Unit.

Add to that requirements in Obama's jobs bills that all iron, steel and manufactured goods used in public buildings or public works be supplied by U.S. firms.

Peter Navarro, a University of California - Irvine professor who is the only formal Trump economic adviser with a deep academic background, noted that Detroit, home of U.S. autos, has seen a movement of auto manufacturing jobs to Mexico.

And while the costs of NAFTA are highly concentrated in specific industries like auto manufacturing — where job losses may be significant for specific firms — the benefits of the trade pact (such as lower prices for imported electronics or clothing) are distributed widely across the U.S., as they are in the case of any trade pact worldwide.

While conceding that many U.S. high - wage manufacturing jobs were relocated to Mexico, China and other foreign locations as a result of NAFTA, Morris Cohen, Wharton professor of operations and information management, argues that NAFTA has, on balance, been a good thing for the U.S. economy and U.S. corporations.

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S. shows the economic and environmental benefits of achieving a 75 percent national recycling rate, including job creation — particularly in manufacturing, pollution reduction and the strengthening of local communities and employment bases.

This decision will cause roughly 23,000 American jobs to be lost this year, including many in manufacturing, and will cancel of billions of dollars in investments in the U.S. economy.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. manufacturing contracted last month for the first time since February, as new orders and output plummeted and factories cut jobs.

It would be interesting to read more on that, particularly to counter arguments that the U.S. can not manufacture or that manufacturing jobs have been replaced by machines (if this were true on a large scale, one would expect higher unemployment in China).

Or conditions remain mostly the same since December and, if anything, the U.S. economy is strengthening, as evidenced by growth in the job market, an uptick in manufacturing orders and consumer spending, and signs that inflation may be starting to stir.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. added a phenomenal 235,000 jobs in February, with gains made in construction, manufacturing, mining, educational services and health care.

If Canadian manufacturing jobs were moving en masse to the United States, you would expect that traditional U.S. manufacturing areas would be doing well.

While conceding that many U.S. high - wage manufacturing jobs were relocated to Mexico, China and other foreign locations as a result of NAFTA, Cohen argues that NAFTA has, on balance, been a good thing for the U.S. economy and U.S. corporations.

The Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition found that 200,000 workers in U.S. manufacturing lost their jobs as a result of the tariffs.

That created five million new U.S. jobs, including 800,000 manufacturing positions.

Woods, whose background is in downstream activities, wants to emphasize this aspect of the company's business in part for the political benefits: The Trump Administration's focus on expanding U.S. exports and building American infrastructure in order to produce new jobs clearly factored into Woods» address, which emphasized the «thousands and thousands» of new manufacturing and highly - skilled jobs the initiative would produce.

Federal support for research and development is generous and essential, but too often, government - assisted research results in patents that create jobs abroad; consider how little Apple and Microsoft technology results in U.S. - based manufacturing.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who ran on an economic platform of bring back manufacturing jobs that had been sent from the U.S. to points overseas and pledged to «Make America Great Again,» more attention has been paid to the offshoring trends that have permeated the economy for a generation.

As part of its Grocery Manufacturers Power America tour, GMA will continue to hold similar events at member companies across the nation to highlight the unique role grocery manufacturing plays in driving the U.S. economy and supporting good - paying jobs for American workers.

The food, beverage and consumer products industry supports nearly 1.5 million American manufacturing jobs and accounts for more than $ 45 billion in U.S. exports each year.