Michael Stumo, the CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), thinks it may be a good thing to increase Chinese tariffs across-the-board. For months it appeared the Chinese were willing to negotiate when ...
For many things in life, perception is reality. But when it comes to careers in manufacturing, perception isn’t reality. Indeed, it’s just the opposite. Industry Week reports on a study Leading2Lean software company did on ...
LinkedIn’s Workforce Report for Chicago for the month of October 2018 shows hiring down 4.9% in September 2018 as compared to September 2017. Seasonally-adjusted hiring ( which removes predictable seasonal hiring variations) was 0.3% lower ...
From NAM’s Shopfloor: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing job openings hit a new all-time high in July. Manufacturers posted 506,000 job openings in July, up from 475,000 in June. That was the highest reading ...
WASHINGTON – Federal numbers say that US unemployment fell to the lowest in years, with 3.9 percent. In other words, over 96 percent of Americans that want jobs have them. It’s the lowest since the ...
Even National Public Radio is waking up to the reality that college is an expense more and more high schoolers are re-evaluating and deciding instead to take a career path towards a trade job that ...
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 ...
The AP reports that “for the first time on record, the number of job openings in the United States exceeds the number of unemployed Americans.” The Labor Department reported Tuesday that “the number of available jobs ...