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The Wall Street Journal reported on March 24 that domestic auto production is being disrupted by a shortage of electronic parts from quake-ravaged Japan. It turns out that Hitachi has 60 percent of the global market for automobile airflow sensors, and another company operating in Japan called
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Date:
3/24/2011
Ten years after China joined the World Trade Organization, the Director of National Intelligence is launching an interagency assessment of what the rapid erosion in U.S. manufacturing capabilities means for the nation's security. The first decade of the new millennium has proven to be a disaster
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Date:
2/9/2011
President Obama's decision to appoint General Electric chairman Jeffrey Immelt as head of a revitalized Council on Jobs and Competitiveness is the latest installment in an encouraging pattern of moves likely to benefit America's beleaguered manufacturers. Some right-wing critics will undoubtedly see
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Date:
1/21/2011
The federal government released December employment results for the economy last week. The manufacturing sector lost another 27,000 jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal. That may sound bad, but compared with the rest of the decade, it actually was pretty good: total employment in the domestic
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Date:
1/11/2010

