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ERIC LOTKE ON THE LATEST JOBS NUMBERS: The solution to 10.2 percent unemployment leaps out from the government data: “During this downturn we can rebuild a productive economy for the future.”
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Close to 300 leaders from labor, business, academia and politics participated in our Washington conference October 29 to outline the industrial and trade policies we need to ensure a broad prosperity based on good American jobs. Watch videos of the sessions on 
Did President Obama seize the opportunity at the G-20 summit to set a new foundation for job growth and fair trade? We examine the issues that preceded the summit and critique what it accomplished for American workers.
A country’s economic power comes from manufacturing. But while other countries have industrial policies, America has a de-industrialization policy. We have handed our country’s manufacturing capacity over to other countries, and as a result we have to borrow more and more to be able to buy the things that we used to make. How did this come to be? Who would be against American manufacturing?
