The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release today: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2018, according to the ...
By Zach Mottl – For more than 100 years, my company, Atlas Tool Works, has been making precision parts and components in Illinois. In that time, our state has benefited from the middle-class jobs created ...
In Market Watch Thursday, Chicago area manufacturer Zach Mottl shares his thoughts about the Trump Administration’s tariff strategy with China … and why he believes the president is right. Mottl is TMA’s Government Relations Committee ...
An executive order signed by President Trump Tuesday will allow business and industry associations to form health coverage groups that would not be subject to the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits. States will now need to ...
WASHINGTON — A Raytheon Co. employee from California who found a new way to get real-time readings from large laser radars now holds the nation’s 10 millionth patent. The White House says President Donald Trump ...
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed unanimously that 16 year old students should have easier access to career apprenticeship programs. State Senator Michael Connelly (R-Naperville), a co-sponsor of the measure, ...
SCHAUMBURG – Last week, TMA News reported on the views about the Trump Administration’s tariffs that Michael Stumo, executive director of Coalition for a Prosperous America shared at TMA’s Schaumburg headquarters. This week, Industry Week ...
Are you a junior or senior in high school? Do you live in the 10th CD? If so, you could be selected to be a part of Congressman Brad Schneider’s brand new STEM Scholar program. ...
By Todd Maisch – With the nation’s unemployment rate continuing to drop, labor markets are in an ever-tightening vice, and Illinois employers are feeling the pain as they try to fill middle-skill jobs. There is ...
A Bloomberg story published the last week of May 2018 says the “U.S. Can Still Catch Up on Manufacturing,” but in order for that to develop, two things needs to happen: the U.S. has to make ...