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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12) and Dan Lipinski introduced the BuyAmerican.gov Act Thursday, which helps ensure that federal agencies adhere to Buy American laws and prioritize the purchase of American-made goods. Recognizing taxpayers’ ...
HENNEPIN, IL – An Illinois ethanol maker announced Tuesday that due to anti-business state legislation and burdensome international trade tariffs, they will not be building a planned $500 million ethanol facility. Marquis Inc. announced its ...
Financial forecasters sometimes share differing views. While the ISM Manufacturing Index optimistically reported a long-term manufacturing increase in March, Bloomberg looked to Federal Reserve data with a slightly different conclusion. The ISM Manufacturing Index reported ...
Legal opinions are starting to come in as to how employers in states that allow medicinal cannabis may choose to handle the new challenges the situation brings. From in a piece titled “Staying Ahead of ...
News reports are saying economist Stephen Moore will be officially nominated by President Trump to sit on the Federal Reserve Board this week. Shortly after President Trump’s election in 2016, Moore spoke with TMA News ...
As the unemployment numbers drop to the lowest in decades and U.S. manufacturing continues to heat up, employers are thinking innovatively about where to find sorely-needed skilled team members. Earlier this month, 44 female inmates ...
(Vice President Pence with Nicole Wolter |Official White House photo by Tia Dufour) Last year’s federal tax cuts were a boon to a Wauconda, Illinois manufacturer and their employees, company president Nicole Wolter said on ...
The newly-elected Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi told members of TMA’s Government Relations Committee Tuesday morning (2.26.2019) that when he assumed office in December 2018, he walked into a mess of old files. “The rows ...
The last week of January 2019 brought with it some of the most frigid temperatures in decades for America’s Midwest – and along with it, manufacturers’ concerns about rising energy costs and demands, as well ...
WASHINGTON – A new study of the US economy from the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) economics team shows that the US dollar is overvalued by 27 percent. Adjusting the dollar to a competitive level ...
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