Monday, June 30, 2003
Manufacturing job losses are continuing, but improvements in manufacturing productivity represent the Big Story of the 1990's that the business press missed.
Read this article to understand the changes sweeping manufacturing. The author is talking about Maine, but the same story applies to your state.
Competitive manufacturing today demands sophisticated skills and generates high incomes. The jobs are fewer but the incomes are higher. We need to continue to invest in manufacturing -- and the skills needed by competitive firms -- to accelerate this trend. Otherwise, we all lose.
The days of high incomes and low skills are gone. Go.
Folks in Indiana need to read this article. They seem confused about manufacturing...They are setting up a false choice between manufacturing and "new economy" jobs. Read more.
My Bonehead Quote of the Month award goes to an EDPro quoted in the article, "We all know manufacturing is leaving the United States."
Today in our history of innovation...
In 1861, Elisha G. Otis, of Yonkers, New York patented the safety elevator as a "Hoisting Apparatus".
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