Fact Sheet: “President Obama is committed to making America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing so we continue to build things the rest of the world buys. After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 over the past three. Manufacturing production has grown since the end of the recession at its fastest pace in over a decade. The Presidents plan builds on that momentum by investing in American manufacturing. The President has outlined a concrete agenda to train American workers for high-tech manufacturing jobs, end tax breaks to ship jobs overseas and make the U.S. more competitive, bring jobs back, and level the playing field for our workers by opening new markets for American-made products.”
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Daily Archives: February 16, 2013
North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues
North Koreas Nuclear Weapons: Technical Issues, Mary Beth Nikitin, Specialist in Nonproliferation, February 12, 2013 “This report summarizes what is known from open sources about the North Korean nuclear weapons programincluding weapons-usable fissile material and warhead estimatesand assesses current developments in achieving denuclearization. Little detailed open-source information is available about the DPRKs nuclear weapons production… Continue Reading
Secrecy News – Army's use of unmanned aerial systems within the United States
Secrecy News, February 14, 2012: “Legal restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft systems in domestic operations are numerous,” the manual states. The question arises particularly in the context of Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA), refering to military assistance to government agencies in disaster response and other domestic emergencies. “Use of DOD intelligence capabilities… Continue Reading
World Bank – What costs the world $260 billion each year?
News release: “More people today have access to a cell phone than to a clean toilet. At the current rate of progress the world will miss the global sanitation target for 2015 by over half a billion people. And while the drinking water global target was met last year, nearly a billion people still lack… Continue Reading
WSJ Infographic – Defining Middle Classe Depends on Location
WSJ.com: In Measuring the Middle, Location is Everything and the related article. Continue Reading
CRS – U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective
U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective, Marc Levinson, Section Research Manager, February 11, 2013 “The health of the U.S. manufacturing sector has long been of great concern to Congress. The decline in manufacturing employment since the start of the 21st century has stimulated particular congressional interest. Members have introduced hundreds of bills intended to support domestic… Continue Reading
