Despite what you've heard, American manufacturing is alive and well. Micheline Maynard, senior editor of Changing Gears and former NYT's senior business correspondent, breaks down the basics.
Bankrupt American Airlines on Wednesday revealed a tough restructuring plan that would scrap the pension plan, reduce health care benefits and, as several of my mobile news smartphone apps trumpted, , lay off some 13,000 employees. That’s a blow to a stumbling jobs market and a hit to consumer and worker confidence, though investors probably love [...]
Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet Money produced an Atlantic article and a two-part segment for Planet Money looking at the loss of jobs for unskilled workers and the growing demand for skilled workers. He explored the issue through Standard Motor Products, a 92-year-old, family-run maker of replacement parts for car engines. In yesterday’s post, Adam offered tips [...]
Coming off a year with a welcome 10 percent increase in sales, the nation’s auto dealers are prepped for an even better 2012, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). Its “Top 3 factors why U.S. auto sales will increase in 2012″ suggests that aging autos, available credit and plenty of incentives from dealers [...]
Adam Davidson of NPR’s Planet Money set out to look at the state of unskilled workers in America. Specifically, he wanted to focus on the loss of jobs for unskilled workers and the growing demand for skilled workers. “This struck me as a very serious issue, it means that, for many Americans, the American dream [...]
I don’t usually blog about blogs, but I liked a post by Micheline Maynard, a Forbes contributor and senior editor of Changing Gears. | Editor’s note: Micki Maynard also wrote the Reynolds Center’s Beat Basics package on Manufacturing. In the Changing Gears post that caught my eye, she wrote about Austin, Texas, looking to boost its [...]
President Obama will address Congress and the nation Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the annual State of the Union speech. It’s tempting, especially in an election year, to dismiss this staged event – and the many state-of-the-state addresses the nation’s governor’s are making this month and next – as pomp, theater and empty rhetoric. But like [...]
It’s the start of a new year but it appears the same stories will dominate financial journalism in 2012: the jobs market (or lack thereof), prices and inflation, financial industry regulation, health care, overseas economic crisis and the U.S. securities markets. All worthy and interesting, but sometimes you just want to exercise your creativity, reporting [...]
At the Chicago Tribune, Ellen Gabler looked into the number of deaths caused by crib bumpers, which wrap around the inside of a crib to make it look cozy and “help prevent babies from bumping their heads or getting their limbs caught in crib slats.”
She found that there could be more deaths associated with the bumpers than the more than two dozen reports in the past two decades that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission acknowledged.
It’s an historic event many despaired would ever come: the end to Operation New Dawn, the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, with final troops just about pulled out, as Reuters reports, another facet of relations with Iraq is dawning: an economic one. As the Reuters article points out, Iraq needs overseas investment to continue rebuilding [...]
