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Oct 29

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How the pandemic has shifted U.S. labor from services to goods

The last major economic report before Election Day indicates a 7.4 percent growth rate in economic output during the year’s third quarter. It’s a sharp rebound from the record plunge of the previous quarter, and the fastest pace since World…

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Sep 09

WATCH: Biden aims to rebuild ‘blue wall’ in appeal to autoworkers

By Alexandra Jaffe, David Eggert, Associated Press

The Democratic presidential nominee's first pandemic-era campaign trips beyond his home in Delaware are taking him to all three states, an indication of how closely Biden's electoral prospects are tied to his ability to flip those political battlegrounds.

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Jul 02

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How the pandemic is reshaping American manufacturing

By Paul Solman

Long before the coronavirus pandemic, manufacturing in the U.S. was transformed -- and with it, daily life. Now COVID-19 is delivering a new blow to the industry. But some companies are pivoting to create the personal protective equipment that the…

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Dec 01

Watch 7:53
Analyzing the long-term value of Trump’s Carrier agreement

By PBS News Hour

President-elect Donald Trump’s deal with United Technologies will preserve 1,100 jobs in the state of Indiana, thus appearing to validate a central promise of his campaign. But questions remain: Is this sort of agreement viable? What is the future of…

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Dec 01

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In Indiana, Trump lauds exchange of tax breaks for Carrier jobs

By PBS News Hour

President-elect Donald Trump traveled to Indianapolis on Thursday, touting a jobs deal he said made good on a campaign promise. In the agreement, Carrier's parent company, United Technologies, will receive $7 million in state tax breaks over 10 years, in…

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Sep 15

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Will mega-corporations give way to a local manufacturing renaissance?

By PBS News Hour

Big companies today aren't creating nearly as many middle-class jobs. Instead they're hiring out much of the work to contractors around the world. But what if we could reverse engineer our technology to bring about a new era of local…

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Jun 12

A BMW engineer: the U.S. has fallen out of touch with the job market

By Moritz Kippenberger

At BMW's only American production plant, they've imported the German tradition of apprenticeships. Paul Solman speaks with a BMW engineer now based in South Carolina about the differences between the working cultures of the two countries, and what the U.S.

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Jun 05

Why an apprenticeship may be a faster ticket to the American dream than a college degree

By Dustin Reid

Dustin Reid, an apprentice at BMW's only U.S. plant, explains why manufacturing is growing in the United States and why vocational training may be a more sure path to the American dream than a four-year degree.

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