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The blog of the Alliance for American Manufacturing

Must Reads

Mar 31 2023
Buy America By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch

Federal Inspectors Visit CRRC Rail Car Factory in Massachusetts

The Federal Transit Administration is investigating whether the company, which is owned by China’s government, is meeting Buy America contracts for new rail cars being built for Philadelphia’s SEPTA system.

Mar 30 2023
American-Made Energy

Senators Tell the Treasury Department and IRS to Prioritize U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing for Tax Credits

Mar 29 2023
Infrastructure

More Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing is Coming to North Carolina

Mar 28 2023
Manufacturing

President Biden Kicks Off the “Investing in America” Tour in North Carolina

The Build Back Better Blueprint

Dec 18 2020

Steel Overcapacity: Trump Performed Triage. Can Biden Heal the Wound?

America’s steel industry is vital to our national security and critical infrastructure. But it remains threatened by global overcapacity, and COVID-19 has only made things worse.

Dec 17 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

The United States Can’t Build Back Better Without Investing in American Workers

Dec 16 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

What Do Black Factory Workers Want from the Incoming Biden Administration?

Dec 15 2020
The Build Back Better Blueprint

Renewed Interest in Made in America Was a Boon to Small Manufacturers During COVID-19. But Will It Continue?

Made in America

Mar 17 2023
Made in America By Jeffrey Bonior

A Company on a Mission to Cut Down on Plastic Waste

Terravive makes compostable, biodegradable food containers, cutlery, cups, plates and straws … all in the United States.

Mar 07 2023
Made in America

Home Town Star Erin Napier Just Unveiled a New Collection with America’s Oldest Wallpaper Manufacturer

Mar 03 2023
Made in America

Luxury Furniture Maker Gets Back to His St. Louis Roots with New Made in USA Collection

Feb 10 2023
Made in America

NFL Footballs are Still Made by Hand, and Still Made in America

Trade

Mar 22 2023
Trade By Matthew McMullan

Imports Subject to the UFLPA are Down, Suggesting the Law is Working as Intended

Forced labor in Xinjiang will be a topic of the next House China Committee hearing, coming up Thursday evening.

Mar 18 2023
Trade

A New Report Looks Inside Chinese Industrial Policy

Mar 14 2023
 

U.S., EU Make Nice Over Clean Energy Industrial Policy

Mar 13 2023
 

The House Select Committee on China Tackles Trade in Its First Hearing

Buy America

Mar 31 2023
Buy America By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch

Federal Inspectors Visit CRRC Rail Car Factory in Massachusetts

The Federal Transit Administration is investigating whether the company, which is owned by China’s government, is meeting Buy America contracts for new rail cars being built for Philadelphia’s SEPTA system.

Feb 27 2023
Buy America

Investigators to Probe Whether Chinese State-Owned CRRC is Meeting Buy America Requirements for Philadelphia Rail Cars

Feb 23 2023
Buy America

Top Ten Reasons to Buy America

Feb 09 2023
Buy America

Don’t Let Importers Undermine Buy America!

Workforce

Mar 27 2023
Workforce By Jeffrey Bonior

Filmmaking Competition Aims to Get Young People Interested in Manufacturing Careers

The “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing” contest in Pennsylvania asks middle schoolers to make videos that promote manufacturing as a career pathway.

Jan 21 2022
Workforce

Closing the Factory Floor Gender Gap

Oct 07 2021
Workforce

Democrats Discover Where They’ve Lost Voters: In Factory Towns

Oct 06 2021
Workforce

How Can Manufacturers Recruit More Women?

National Security

Jan 17 2023
National Security By Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch

Wow, Things are Really Bad at the CRRC Factory in Massachusetts

The Chinese state-owned company severely underbid to nab a taxpayer-funded contract to build new rail cars for Boston’s subway system. It hasn’t gone great.

Jan 05 2023
National Security

Remember the CRRC Boston Rail Car Project? It’s Shaping Up to be Quite the Boondoggle

Sep 29 2022
National Security

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Make Sure Technology Invented in the USA is Made in the USA

Sep 27 2022
National Security

Bipartisan Group of House and Senate Leaders Calls on Biden to Regulate Outbound Investments

Infrastructure

Mar 29 2023
Infrastructure By Matthew McMullan

More Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing is Coming to North Carolina

The investments by Corning and CommScope are being spurred by the infrastructure program passed by Congress in 2021.

Feb 06 2023
Infrastructure

America is Finally Rebuilding Its Infrastructure, and U.S. Factory Workers are Seeing the Benefits

Feb 03 2023
Infrastructure

Senate Committee Examines Energy Department’s Use of Infrastructure Funds

Jan 31 2023
Infrastructure

House Committee to Look at the “State of Transportation Infrastructure”

Jobs

Mar 14 2023
By Cathalijne Adams

The U.S., U.K. and Australia Are Partnering in a Deal to Develop Nuclear-Powered Submarines. Steelworkers Build Them.   

USW Local 8888 constructs nuclear submarines in Newport News, Va., one of the nation’s two shipyards with the capability. Beginning in the early 2030s, pending approval from Congress, the United States will sell Australia three Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) with […]

Feb 27 2023
 

Rep. Debbie Dingell On Why She Formed the Heartland Caucus and How the U.S. Needs to Navigate EVs

Feb 03 2023
Jobs

Manufacturing Adds 19,000 in January, says Latest Jobs Report

Jan 06 2023
Jobs

Only 8,000 Jobs for Manufacturing this December