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Surging dollar complicates Trump job-creation plans

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 16, 2016
The rising dollar makes U.S. products more expensive.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sits down with a group of invited small business owners for a round table meeting at the Staybridge Suites on November 1, 2016 in Altoona, Wisconsin. 
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Key for Trump voters? Economic anxiety

by Kimberly Adams
Nov 11, 2016
White people without college degrees feel the pinch.
President-elect Donald Trump meets supporters during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown. 
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Economic data is good. But many aren't feeling it.

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Nov 9, 2016
And that's a big reason Donald Trump won the White House.
Supporters listen to Donald Trump speak at a rally at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, during a campaign stop.
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What Rust Belt voters expect from Donald Trump

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 9, 2016
The jobs their candidate promised ... but how?
Supporters pledge allegiance to the flag before Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in October at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
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What it takes to bring "back" a manufacturing job

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 28, 2016
Hint: more things than we can control.
   
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How The Deck Is Stacked

A Job in Manufacturing through a Kodak Lens

by Kai Ryssdal and Tommy Andres
Oct 28, 2016
Kodak was once known as a titan of the manufacturing industry. A retired employee looks back.
Kodak black and white film is offered for sale at Central Camera in Chicago, Illinois. Kodak, which once had a 90 percent market share of U.S. film sales filed for bankruptcy in 2012.  
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Los Angeles is still the largest manufacturing hub in the country, but it lacks a skilled labor force

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Oct 28, 2016
Goldbrecht Systems USA makes over-sized windows and advanced sliding glass doors in Culver City, CA.
Goldbrecht Systems USA employee Sonny Gonzalez prepares to cut a sheet of glass.
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In North Carolina, an old mill town reinvents itself

by Reema Khrais
Oct 27, 2016
Textile manufacturing defined Kannapolis for decades, but those days are gone.
A rendering of what Kannapolis' new downtown will look after its revitalization.
Courtesy city of Kannapolis
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Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke on the ‘analog renaissance’

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 11, 2016
He thinks print is here to stay.
Kodak hopes to release a Super 8 movie camera later this year that shoots four kinds of film and has digital video, seen here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January.
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Not enough skilled factory workers — really?

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 7, 2016
Manufacturers complain of a rising "skills gap" among job applicants that is hampering their ability to grow and improve productivity.
Some employers say there are labor shortages in skilled manufacturing.
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