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NAFTA Explained

What people get wrong when they talk about NAFTA

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Mar 24, 2017
Economist Marc Melitz says there are common misunderstandings about NAFTA.
Employees work in a manufacturing business in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Joe Raedle/Newsmakers
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NAFTA Explained

What if NAFTA was never created?

by Scott Tong
Mar 23, 2017
U.S. manufacturing jobs would still be lost to technology and China, economists say.
U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement on December 8, 1993.
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images
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The Big Promise

Union leader has hope for Erie, Pennsylvania, with or without Trump

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 28, 2017
Scott Slawson believes that change will have to come from the town itself.
Scott Slawson, the union president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, isn't expecting help from President Donald Trump.
Maitham Basha-Agha/Marketplace
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Facing skills gap, employers send workers to college

by Amy Scott
Feb 28, 2017
Copper tubing manufacturer pays its mechanics to learn advanced skills.
Daniel Waller (left) is manager of maintenance systems at Cambridge-Lee Industries in Reading, Pa. With more employees like Waller, 63, nearing retirement, the company is training workers like Alexander Jones, 23, to replace them.
Amy Scott/Marketplace
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Top U.S. gunmaker says sales will pick back up under Trump

by Jana Kasperkevic
Feb 23, 2017
Sturm Ruger CEO Michael Fifer says owning firearms is 'more socially acceptable.'
The proprietor of this Merrimack, New Hampshire, gun store said his October 2016 sales were double that of 2015, with customers expressing anxiety about the November election.
DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images
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How an old shipyard became a home for hardware startups

by Stephanie Hughes and Ben Johnson
Feb 20, 2017
How a real estate developer transformed a former ship building facility to a new space for hardware companies.
An Ultimaker 3-D printer works at at the New Lab manufacturing hub. 
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Manufacturing is alive and well in Reading, Pennsylvania

by Amy Scott
Feb 7, 2017
Employers and educators join forces to build a new pipeline of skilled workers.
Benjamin Eckenrode, 18, is taking advanced manufacturing courses at Reading Area Community College while still in high school.
Amy Scott/Marketplace
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The future of jobs in Dalton, Georgia

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 1, 2017
Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary takes a tour of the carpet manufacturing capital of the world.
An astroturf football field in Dalton, Georgia made in a local carpet manufacturing factory.
Eliza Mills/Marketplace
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How The Deck Is Stacked

Sterling Technologies: A small business optimistic under President Trump

by Kai Ryssdal and Caitlin Esch
Jan 20, 2017
We're following the county of Erie, Pennsylvania, and the people relying on President Trump's promises. Today, a factory banking on those promises.
Factory workers at Erie's Sterling Technologies in 2017.
Maitham Basha-Agha/Marketplace
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GE focuses on the networked industrial frontier

by Mitchell Hartman
Jan 20, 2017
As GE reports fourth-quarter earnings, we’ll look at the company’s focus on manufacturing with a digital emphasis. GE’s been investing in cloud-based industrial management tools and the “internet of things.”  Does that put the company in a good position to capitalize on the Trump administration’s interest in spurring domestic manufacturing? Click the above audio player […]
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