Sentences with phrase «manufacturing leaving our region»
«In the last 25 years, we've seen a lot of manufacturing leaving our region and our country,» said Maczuzak, but fortunately for Cleveland, the medical industry is really stepping in to save us.»
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«Because of NAFTA, the jobs — GM, Chrysler, all of the manufacturing jobs that have left this region for a long time — has had a huge impact on the working families of this district,» Deacon said.
These differences can begin to be addressed by building a new 21st Century economy, one that grows in the rustbelt and throughout the many regions «left behind» around new, green technologies, nano manufacturing for healthcare, micro-finance for local resilience.
My parents» generation dealt with segregation and its aftermath, Vietnam, and the much harder part of the transition from an industrial to an information economy, when hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving entire regions of the country reeling.
The environmental devastation caused by manufacturing is horrific, from the chromium contamination of vast regions of northern India by tanneries, to the brimming landfill sites of America, where 11 million tons of clothes are thrown away annually, left to rot and produce methane gas.
Moreover, the reliance on industrial production in the Midwest leaves the region susceptible to fluctuations of oil prices given their use as an input in the manufacturing process.
By Patrick McNamara INSIDE TUCSON BUSINESS August 26, 2011 When Raytheon Missile Systems, the region's largest employer, decided in 2010 to open a new manufacturing facility at Huntsville, Ala., instead of Tucson, it raised the spectre: What if Raytheon left Tucson... Continue reading >>