News reports are saying economist Stephen Moore will be officially nominated by President Trump to sit on the Federal Reserve Board this week. Shortly after President Trump’s election in 2016, Moore spoke with TMA News ...
As the unemployment numbers drop to the lowest in decades and U.S. manufacturing continues to heat up, employers are thinking innovatively about where to find sorely-needed skilled team members. Earlier this month, 44 female inmates ...
(Vice President Pence with Nicole Wolter |Official White House photo by Tia Dufour) Last year’s federal tax cuts were a boon to a Wauconda, Illinois manufacturer and their employees, company president Nicole Wolter said on ...
The newly-elected Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi told members of TMA’s Government Relations Committee Tuesday morning (2.26.2019) that when he assumed office in December 2018, he walked into a mess of old files. “The rows ...
The last week of January 2019 brought with it some of the most frigid temperatures in decades for America’s Midwest – and along with it, manufacturers’ concerns about rising energy costs and demands, as well ...
WASHINGTON – A new study of the US economy from the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) economics team shows that the US dollar is overvalued by 27 percent. Adjusting the dollar to a competitive level ...
Optimism among manufacturers nationwide is at all-time highs, but manufacturers are not similarly hopeful about their futures in the state of Illinois. In 2015, 42% of Illinois state representatives had a cumulative score of 75 ...
MILAN – Over 120 Milan Illinois jobs will be moving north and across the Mississippi River into Iowa. Lewis Machine and Tool will be taking to Eldridge Iowa a new contract to make 15,000 firearms ...
A dispute over a Super Bowl ad shown in Canada only has erupted between General Motors and the Canadian Unifor auto workers’ union, the Associated Press reports. The Canadian subsidiary of General Motors was unable ...
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation nearly doubling the state’s minimum wage from $8.25 to $15 per hour. While anyone in Illinois would be delighted with a nearly 100 percent pay raise, ...