January 6, 2019 According to Industry Week, manufacturing employment increased almost 300,000 over the last year! This is after increasing around 200,000 the year prior which is more than a 40% increase. This is much more significant than the numbers alone convey because, according to the National Association of [...]
July 16, 2018 According to a new Brookings Institution report, the United States ranks near the top for overall manufacturing environment. The report evaluated policies and regulations, taxes, costs, workforce quality and infrastructure and innovation. The only two countries to rank higher are the United Kingdom (#1) and Switzerland [...]
April 19, 2017 According to the Material Handling & Logistics, robots are slashing U.S. wages and worsening pay inequality. That is certainly a provocative statement! According to new research by MIT's Daron Acemoglu and Boston University's Pascual Restrepo, one additional robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio [...]
