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Mark Critz: Leveling the manufacturing playing field
Since China’s 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), we have lost nearly three million American manufacturing jobs, and our overall trade deficit with China has grown to over $273 billion. In fact, the most recent statistics show that...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Mark Critz, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Imports
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Trade agreement may bump area economy
Staff WriterAn agreement rectifying the cross-border long-haul trucking dispute between the United States and Mexico was signed Wednesday and may give Imperial Valley a slight economic boost. The agreement, signed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and...Tags: Mexico, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Vehicles, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Somerset County bucks statewide manufacturing trend
Daily American Staff WriterWhile Pennsylvania added manufacturing jobs last year, Somerset County lost them. Preliminary statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Philadelphia show that Pennsylvania added 15,000 manufacturing jobs last year, but Somerset County lost 328....Tags: Trade Policy, Treaties, Building Material, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Trade Agreements
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Congress has a shot at passing jobs-creating bills
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Congress gets back to work after Labor Day it will have the chance to achieve something that has largely eluded it for the entire year, passing legislation that might actually create jobs. With the battering debate over the...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Employees, Washington, DC, Homes
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Letters to the Editor - Aug. 10
Several solutions exist for debt crisis To the editor: There are several solutions available to help solve the debt crisis. One of the foremost among these is putting reasonable tariffs on imports. The economist Ian Fletcher, author of “Free...Tags: Trade Policy, Labor Legislation, Washington (U.S. state), Career and Workplace, Treaties
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South Korean trade deal: A small step toward fixing the economy
President Barack Obama's jobs bill, a relatively modest effort given the risks the economy faces and the toll that extended joblessness has taken on American workers, is bogged down in a divided Congress and is about to get more so. Senate leaders are...Tags: Trade Policy, South Korea, Career and Workplace, Employees, White House
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Ernesto Zedillo, Former Mexican President, is Accused of Crimes Against Humanity
Ernesto Zedillo is facing a lawsuit in Hartford federal court for a massacre that occurred in a remote village while he was in office. Zedillo, who is now a Yale professor and director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, says he had nothing to...Tags: Mexico, Government, Treaties, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Government
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China currency bill: America fights back
The China currency bill is the most significant jobs bill Congress could pass. It enjoys the bipartisan support of nearly 80 Republican and Democratic senators, yet President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner oppose it, illustrating that both...Tags: Trade Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Imports, Trade Agreements
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Kansas lawmakers praise passage of trade agreements in Congress
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsCongress has approved free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, ending a four-year drought in the forming of new trade partnerships and giving the White House and Capitol Hill the opportunity to show they can work together to...Tags: Trade Policy, South Korea, Career and Workplace, Mike Pompeo, White House
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US farmers celebrate approval of free trade deals
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - U.S. farmers on Thursday celebrated the approval of free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, saying the pacts will increase demand for their products, though American consumers shouldn't see a drastic increase...Tags: Chad, Agriculture, Trade Policy, South Korea, Cherries
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Obama, Lee to pitch trade deal in Michigan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak are promoting a new trade deal by visiting an auto plant in Michigan, a state battered by Asian car imports, in a rare joint appearance outside of Washington by a U....Tags: Mexico, Career and Workplace, Employees, Washington, DC, Treaties
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Round and round we go
By Alan Guebert The mid-June Congressional action on ag programs seems to confirm why Washington, D.C.’s streets feature roundabout upon roundabout: moving left or right – a big deal on Capitol Hill now – usually lands you back where...Tags: Biofuels, Renewable Energy, Washington, DC, Tom Coburn, Conservation
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Jun 30, 2011
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