By Alexis Garrett Stodghill Huge price tags on designer jeans are commonplace, a sign of an era in which high-end denim is worn to communicate individual style. We can all remember when paying $50 for a pair of Levi’s was the average, and the vast majority of today’s market still consists of denim priced in […]
Since 2007 innovation has led factories to cut 2 million jobs.
(WSJ) — A new report on manufacturing in New York tells an interesting story, and it’s not just the tale of job loss and contraction that we’ve come to expect from the sector. While the image of New York might not bring factories to mind, the sector has a sizable footprint in the state economy. […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — Metro Atlanta lost 68,700 manufacturing jobs this decade, the ninth most of the 100 largest metro areas in the nation. An analysis of federal data shows nearly 69,000 local manufacturing jobs were lost from May 2000 to May 2010. That equates to metro Atlanta losing 33.2 percent of its manufacturing jobs […]