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Is Manufacturing Coming Back to the United States?

On Monday, the President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), chaired by Rafeal Reif, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Andrew Leveris, CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, a Business Forward member company, released by a report on how to boost advanced manufacturing in America. Informed by these findings, the White House announced a number of…

Businesses Across the Country Prepared for “The Big One” with “The Great ShakeOut”

If you stepped into a Target or Walmart on the West Coast the morning of Thursday, October 16, you might have experienced something out of the ordinary. The two retailers (and Business Forward member companies) participated in The Great ShakeOut, an earthquake simulation that took place at 950,000 businesses nationwide (plus millions more schools and…

94 Years After Getting the Right to Vote, Women Lead 24 of America’s Largest Companies

 Marillyn Hewson, President and CEO, Lockheed Martin Today is Women’s Equality Day, marking the 94th anniversary of certification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920, which gave women the right to vote. Now women serve as leaders in government and business. Twenty-four of America’s largest publically-traded companies are led by women, and that number…

Job Openings Hit 13-Year-High

U.S. employers advertised a 13-year-high of 4.67 million jobs in June, the highest number the country has seen since February 2001, according to a Department of Labor report released last week. June’s job openings marked a 3.3 percent increase in the rate of job openings, the highest since June 2007. Areas that saw increases in…

President signs bipartisan bill to strengthen workforce development

On Tuesday, President Obama signed into law legislation that revamps federal training programs to help workers develop the skills they need to compete in the global economy. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act, which will eliminate duplicate programs and address the “skills gap,” received overwhelming bipartisan support in both the House, with a 415-6 vote,…

May Jobs Report: Employment Now Above Pre-Recession Levels

  Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 217,000 jobs in May. Unemployment remained unchanged from April at 6.3 percent. On Monday, Business Forward will host a free interactive webinar on the implications of this jobs report with Dr. Jennifer Hunt, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S.…

Equal Pay and Your Bottom Line

President Obama declared today, April 8, “Equal Pay Day” (read his proclamation here). It’s the symbolic day when women’s pay catches up to men’s earnings from the previous year, after taking into consideration experience, time worked, education, and other factors. That’s because, on average, women make 77 cents to every dollar a man makes for the…

Local Leadership Council Member at White House for State of the Union

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The Essence of Engagement is Local

Two years ago, I facilitated a roundtable discussion in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.  The discussion featured a senior official from the State Department and leaders from the local business community. The official listened as we talked about their ideas for growing the economy.  What struck me was not only the content of the discussion, but…

Commercial Space Program Keeps Flame of Exploration Burning

This is a crosspost from NASA.gov. Click here to see the original post. When I saw the Olympic torch on its first spacewalk in history this past Saturday, I was reminded of NASA’s 50-plus years as the world’s undisputed leader in space exploration. Today, we have more evidence of that leadership. After more than 10…