Manufacturing

While data shows that American productivity has increased exponentially in the past three decades, that is nothing more than a façade given that most of those production gains are driven by off shoring.

While the recession is taking a major toll on Americans all across the country, it is simply adding insult to injury for the people of the Youngstown metropolitan area.

A long-time opponent of free trade policies that have cost his state thousands upon thousands of manufacturing jobs, Sen. Sherrod Brown said the administration should support the TRADE Act, which would completely overhaul the way America conducts trade.

In the 1950s 30 percent of US employees were in manufacturing – almost 1 in 3 jobs. This country was a relative manufacturing super power, we were the world’s richest and most productive country.

The idea that America can remain an economic powerhouse without its manufacturing base, by simply innovating, is ill-conceived.