Manufacturing Reshoring, Trickle Could Turn To Flood
Dated: 05-22-2012

Many manufacturing businesses in the US where wiped out, by low-cost imports from Asia, especially China. Many other companies moved their production from US to China. The manufacturing employment was reduced by about 6 million jobs. Bill Good as a student in the 1980 recalls that the company where he worked at Char-Broil LLC, a [...]
Jobless Rate Could Lessen As States Exhaust Extended Benefit Program
Dated: 05-22-2012

Estimates by the National Employment Law Project reveal that about 370,000 American in 23 states stopped getting unemployment benefits, between April 7 and May 12. The extended benefits provide payments, in some cases for as long as 99 weeks. States where the benefits are still being provided will stop doing so by September, their dropping [...]
Oil Boom Results in Women Entering a Traditionally Male Work Environment
Dated: 05-21-2012

The oil boom has found lots of takers amongst women, who saw this traditionally, male-dominated profession, as a new avenue for working and ensuring a better world for themselves and their families. Innovative technology and modern techniques, like horizontal drilling, have revealed that lands once thought to be bereft of oil, had unexploited reserves, that [...]