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Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.

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Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.

West Virginia

Jenkins reintroduces bill that aims to attract new businesses to West Virginia
West Virginia Record

Va.) in the 2016 Congress with the goal of giving tax incentives to ... CORE will allow investors in West Virginia communities to get a 39 percent tax ... Number one, tax reform is front and center not only on Congress' agenda, but now ...

West Virginia Republicans could go all the way in 2017
West Virginia Record

West Virginia Republicans could go all the way in 2017 ... There's talk of comprehensive tax and tort reform and other measures designed to make our ...

Justice releases details of timber industry plan
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)

“He sees an opportunity to create new jobs by adding mills and hardwood manufacturing operations to West Virginia. It means lower transportation ...

Insisting on Trade Deals That Benefit West Virginians
Wheeling Intelligencer

West Virginia's economy has been hit hard by past trade agreements that ... In West Virginia alone, more than 30,000 manufacturing jobs have been ...

Labor is key to economic development
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)

West Virginia and much of the “rust-belt” states suffered the same fate. Manufacturing plants closed and shifted jobs out of the country. Add into the mix ...

Toyota Helps Huntington Foodbank Dramatically Revamp Warehouse
The Exponent Telegram (press release) (registration)

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia showed Huntington's Facing Hunger Foodbank how to more efficiently arrange donations in its warehouse.

United States

Michael Hicks: Trade Deals Won't Change Manufacturing Employment
News Sentinel

Estimates of factory job losses due to trade range between 750,000 and 1.4 million fewer American manufacturing jobs because of a trade deficit.

Old Manufacturing Jobs Won't Return, But New Ones Can Be Created
TheStreet.com

A great deal of attention has focused on President Donald Trump's stated desire to return manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and his portfolio of strategies ...

Coming to Michigan by 2020: Automotive fuel cell production for new GM-Honda alliance
MLive.com

Fuel cell systems are moving from science books to the front lines of auto production as General Motors and Honda on Monday announced a joint ...

Automotive parts manufacturing jobs in US up nearly 19%
Staffing Industry Analysts

Automotive parts manufacturing jobs in the US have risen nearly 19% since 2012, according to a study released today by the Motor & Equipment ...


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