PARK FOREST – Interest about careers in precision manufacturing is building among Rich Township High School students in Chicago’s southern suburbs, and TMA’s Education Foundation wants to encourage the great work Metals Instructor Mike Wilson ...
SCHAUMBURG – Political analysts say a “Blue Tsunami” could hit the US in November, causing Democrats to regain the majority in US Congress. US manufacturing is riding a historic wave of its own right now. ...
Manufacturers and business service providers posted a strong month of hiring in April, helping cut the U.S. unemployment rate to 3.9 percent, the lowest level since December 2000. Employment in manufacturing grew by 24,000. Much ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – TMA Education Foundation awarded John Hersey High School almost $9000 last week to help the technical education department buy a new lathe and mill for student training. Rich Hyde, the Engineering and ...
The U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent — the lowest point since 2000, federal economists reported Friday.
More and more economic reports are pointing to a slowdown in manufacturing at a time when the gates are wide open for expansion unlike any other time in recent history. Why are manufacturers being forced ...
WAUCONDA – Monday, TMA Board member Nicole Wolter hosted a bus tour emphasizing how the new tax cuts are helping small businesses throughout the nation. Here’s video the Job Creators Network featured after the rally ...
The US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Statistics released a report Friday saying the nation’s private industry workers’ salaries increased by 2.9 percent in the past 12 months. In addition, the bureau found workers’ compensation ...
SCHAUMBURG – John Augustine, Chief Investment Officer of Huntington Bank in Chicago, shared insight about the nation’s economic and market conditions at Technology & Manufacturing Association’s annual Economic Breakfast. US manufacturing output is at historical ...
It isn’t easy to start a new business in Illinois these days, but that foreboding thought didn’t faze Felipe Perez. The 30-year-old started a brand new milling, turning and wire EDM business in October 2016. ...