President Trump has touted apprenticeships as part of his promise of a golden era for American workers. But are his administration’s investments enough?
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Can bringing back manufacturing help the heartland catch up with ‘superstar’ cities?
In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.
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Is it ‘Made in USA’? The answer can be complicated
In a global economy, something called “substantial transformation” comes into play when the U.S. determines where a product is made.
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India is hoping its manufacturing industry will profit from Trump’s tariffs on China
India is hoping to attract more manufacturing as the Trump administration’s tariff policies make it more expensive to do business in China.
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Prysmian abandons plans for offshore wind cable factory in Somerset
An Italian company has abandoned plans to build a factory in Somerset that would have supplied undersea cables to American offshore wind farms. The proposed factory would have created between 200 and 350 manufacturing jobs at the site of an old coal fired power plant in Somerset’s Brayton Point neighborhood. The Prysmian Group announced on […]
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Harris heads to Pittsburgh (again) to make a manufacturing pitch to voters
Vice President Harris is trying to win over undecided voters in key swing states like Pennsylvania. Former President Donald Trump also talked about manufacturing policy on Tuesday in Georgia.
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An Alabama manufacturer shows how to retain working moms: child care
Child care has long been seen as a problem for mothers to solve. Now employers see it’s their issue too. In Alabama, a carmaker is working with a tech company to help employees find and pay for care.
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Taiwan earthquake briefly halts chip factories that power the global economy
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes more than 90% of world’s most advanced chips, also halted production, but it plans to resume chipmaking overnight.
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The legacy of a Rhode Island manufacturing giant and its “unlikely” leader
Rhode Island lost a giant in the state’s manufacturing history when Henry “Hank” Sharpe Jr. passed away earlier this month.
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Henry Sharpe, Rhode Island philanthropist and manufacturing leader, dies at 99
Henry “Hank” Sharpe, Jr., philanthropist and longtime president of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, passed away Friday in Maine at 99 years old, his family said Thursday. Born in Providence in 1923, Sharpe was a graduate of Brown University and a Navy veteran of World War II. He took the helm of the well-known […]
