manufacturing
October 20, 2020 -
We look at the political groups spending millions of dollars to support President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the high court — and the business interests funding them.
September 27, 2012 -
A remembrance of Victor Bussie, a longtime Louisiana labor leader who fought anti-union laws and whose home was bombed by the Klan.
February 27, 2012 -
Caterpillar's recent decision to build a $200 million plant in the right-to-work state of Georgia illustrates the limits of the heralded U.S. industrial recovery.
March 7, 2008 -
Today's job report coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has some grim news: for the first time in eight five years*, the country has seen two straight months of job losses. The net job loss for February was 22,000.
April 20, 2005 -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today that real average weekly earnings dropped 0.3 percent in March. This was the second month of decline -- real earnings dropped .3% in February as well -- putting the annual rate of decline at 3.6%. As the BLS notes, "A 0.3 percent increase in average hourly earnings was more than offset by a 0.6 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index."
August 1, 1998 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 26 No. 2/3, "The Globalization Game." Find more from that issue here.
August 1, 1998 -
Southern boosters are on a crusade for “world-class status.” But what are the costs of trying to be a global player?