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US job gains defy Sandy - and fears of the fiscal cliff

...other heavy equipment. That would generate more manufacturing jobs."The ground is being prepared for faster growth...manufacturers added nearly 10,000 jobs. But overall manufacturing jobs fell by 7,000, partly a result of 12,000 jobs...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-09/us-job-gains-defy-sandy-and-fears-fisca
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...other countries, or if you are Wall Street and want cheaper assets and labor overseas. But most of the 5 million manufacturing jobs that we have lost in the past 20 years are a result of an overvalued dollar, which makes our imports artificially...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-12-28
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President Obama makes case to stay on the job

...including the auto bailout that Romney opposed."After a decade of decline, this country created over a half million manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years," he said.Turning to national security, he said he had promised to end the...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-09-07/president-obama-makes-case-stay-job
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Allowing tax cuts to expire would push America's struggling economy off cliff

...indiscriminate automatic spending cuts take effect, some sectors will be hit hard with job losses - 1 million defense and manufacturing jobs are expected to be wiped out in just two years.The Chamber of Commerce urges Congress and the president to take...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-27/allowing-tax-cuts-expire-would-push-a
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Alaska editorial: Keep it local

...for quality work completed on budget and deadline. It also provides year-round, well-paying manufacturing jobs in Ketchikan. Manufacturing jobs are the key to any successful economy.The shipyard has a great future as industries, such as...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-16/alaska-editorial-keep-it-local
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Outside editorial: Those who went to war deserve a job when they return

...pre-recession, pre-globalization America, they could have expected to move into the construction trades or a manufacturing job. Not these days, not often anyway.Some 125,000 of these young veterans have military-related disabilities...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-23/outside-editorial-those-who-went-war-
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Santorum's surge - to a deadlocked GOP convention?

...taxes and a balanced budget. But he's also proposed a set of policies to promote the creation of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, including elimination of the corporate income tax for manufacturers.Within those themes, of course, lies an...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-02-20/santorums-surge-deadlocked-gop-conven
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My Turn: Occupy protesters last hope of the middle class

...another clear example. Economists claim that globalization is good for the U.S. economy because the loss of manufacturing jobs is offset by cheap consumer goods and increased corporate profits. In theory, it should make us all richer, but...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-16/occupy-protesters-last-hope-middle-cl
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Delay throws blue-collar workers under the Keystone bus

...would yield. Cutting energy costs is critical to boosting U.S. firms' competitiveness and preserving American manufacturing jobs.Instead of making a decision that would support the American economy and create thousands of jobs for construction...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-25-0
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Empire Editorial: Congress: Don't restrict Alaska's right to export natural gas

...not China's," Markey continued. "If we export America's natural gas to China, we might as well export our manufacturing jobs with it."Huh? The pipelines needed would create manufacturing and construction jobs, as well as food service...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-03-22/empire-editorial-congress-dont-restri
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