Census: Americans hit hard by downturn
The recession is disrupting U.S. life: More people are delaying marriage and home-buying, turning to carpools yet getting stuck in ever-worse traffic, staying put rather than moving to new cities.
View ArticleHat in hand, U.S. turns to India to create jobs
BusinessWeek: States are wooing anyone with hiring plans — even if that means going to the same bunch that have been responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs going overseas.
View ArticleApple suppliers in Far East work in an iFortress
Apple goes to what one person in the business termed "extreme lengths" to protect even the smallest details of its products under development.
View ArticleChina patents surge as U.S. filings plunge
China bucked an unprecedented decline in global patent filings last year, boosting its total by 29.7 percent, while the United States saw a fall of 11.4 percent.
View Article'Buy China' policy alarms trade partners
Beijing says it wants to spur Chinese inventions with a "Buy China" policy that gives preference to domestic technology companies. But trade partners have objections.
View ArticleCan low-paying garment industry save Haiti?
Jordanie Pinquie Rebeca leans forward and guides a piece of suit-jacket wool and its silky lining into a sewing machine, where — bat! bat! bat! — they're bound together to be hemmed.
View ArticleObama outlines steps in bid to double exports
President Barack Obama sought to put some detail behind his lofty drive to double U.S. exports over the next five years, calling the effort imperative to putting people back to work.
View ArticleBusiness sales rise to highest level since 2008
Business inventories were unexpectedly flat in January, while sales rose to their highest level since October 2008, government data showed on Friday.
View ArticleMade in Costa Rica: Major League baseballs
The average baseball is only used for a few pitches in the U.S. Major Leagues, but for the Costa Ricans who make them each ball is the result of hours of painstaking stitching by hand.
View ArticleChina’s new generation picky about jobs
Factory bosses in southern China's Pearl River Delta — the nation's biggest manufacturing base — are complaining about a severe shortage of workers.
View ArticleGrio: Black-owned businesses blaze trails in U.S.
There are a million black-owned businesses in the U.S., which generate more than $100 billion in sales.
View ArticleNomadic manufacturers return to N. America
After years of chasing low labor costs from one Asian country to another, some U.S. manufacturers are returning to North America as the industry looks to shorten supply chains.
View ArticleTesla, Toyota give jolt to NUMMI plant
Both giant Toyota and tiny Tesla Motors stand to gain under a deal that will see the startup electric carmaker move into the storied California NUMMI plant that Toyota just shuttered.
View ArticleOriginal Hershey’s chocolate factory may close
The Hershey Co. said Tuesday that it may shut down production in the original plant built by founder Milton Hershey.
View ArticleSolar struggles for U.S. market
Even as the Gulf oil disaster offers another reminder of the drawbacks of fossil fuels, solar power remains on the fringes of the energy industry, especially here in the United States.
View ArticleHow some textile mills avoided Armageddon
How can textile plants survive in the U.S.? By constant investment in automation equipment that allows the plants to make more yarn with fewer skilled workers at low prices.
View ArticleOld economy leading the recovery — for now
Amid the nation’s slow and stubborn economic recovery, an unlikely sector is showing surprising strength: manufacturing. But economists say that may not be sustainable.
View ArticleCaterpillar to build new plant in Texas
Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction and other heavy machinery, said it will build a manufacturing facility in Victoria, Texas, that will employ more than 500 workers.
View ArticleIs it possible to be an all-American company?
Mag Instrument is an ardently American company. But it's not easy. It faces a flood of cheap imports, and copycats. And it also struggles with government regulations.
View ArticleSurfboard makers thrive in choppy waters
Surfboards, one of the most quintessential American products, have been slammed by a wave of imports over the past few years. Some think that may have been a good thing for the industry.
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