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Herald Zeitung
3/27/2009
After a half year of declines, consumer spending edged up for a second month in February even though incomes sagged under the weight of further job losses.
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Op-Ed News
3/18/2009
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American manufacturing employment fell to its lowest level since July 1941, just five months before America's entry into WWII.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
3/14/2009
The U.S. government reported that the United States ran a trade deficit of $36 billion in January 2009, including a $39.8 billion trade deficit in manufactured goods.
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Journal of Commerce
3/13/2009
The overall U.S. trade deficit in January dropped to its lowest level in six years, not as a result of strong U.S. export performance but because of weak U.S. demand for imported goods, the Commerce Department reported March 13.
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Associated Press
3/13/2009
The U.S. trade deficit plunged in January to the lowest level in six years. While U.S. exports -- from farm goods to autos to civilian aircraft -- fell sharply, imports fell at an even faster clip as a deepening recession cut demand for goods from abroad.
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Forbes
3/13/2009
The U.S. trade deficit plunged in January to the lowest level in six years as a deepening recession cut demand for imported goods at an even faster rate than for exports.
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Greenville News
3/7/2009
South Carolina’s rising unemployment became a chronic problem in the state long before the current recession.
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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
2/26/2009
A joint venture in Guatemala may help the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association keep more jobs in West Texas.
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Fayetteville Observer
2/18/2009
The $787 billion stimulus package includes a "buy American" law sponsored by North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell that was designed to help the textile industry.
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Burlington Times News
2/18/2009
The $787 billion stimulus package includes a ``buy American'' law sponsored by North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell that was designed to help the textile industry.
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Textile World News
2/18/2009
It's been another disappointing year for the hard-pressed textile and apparel industries.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau
2/17/2009
The beleaguered textile industry on Tuesday applauded a new "buy American" law sponsored by freshman Rep. Larry Kissell, though it remains unclear how many jobs will be shifted to the United States because of it.
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Home Textiles Today
2/14/2009
An affiliation of U.S. textiles associations today hailed the passage of the Kissell Amendment, a provision in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that mandates any textiles and apparel products contacted...
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Fibre 2 Fashion
2/14/2009
The stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1), included legislation offered by Congressman Larry Kissell (D-NC) mandating that any textile and apparel products contracted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)…
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Washington Post
2/12/2009
The compromise stimulus bill adopted by House and Senate negotiators this week is not free of spending that benefits specific communities, industries or groups, despite vows by President Obama that the legislation would be kept clear…
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Delta Farm Press
2/6/2009
By a vote of 65-31, the U.S. Senate rejected an amendment offered by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped the requirement to buy American for all spending covered by the stimulus package now being considered by Congress.
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Metalbulletin.com
2/5/2009
The failure of an attempt to strike "Buy America" provisions from the Senate version of the U.S. stimulus package was warmly welcomed by manufacturing groups, while opponents continued to attack the provision ahead of a final vote.
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ProPublica
2/5/2009
Lumped together, the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus plan number some 1,400 pages, roughly the equivalent of the complete works of Shakespeare.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal
1/30/2009
The National Cotton Council circulated a statement Thursday commending Congress for adding to the massive stimulus bill a requirement that uniforms purchased for federal workers must come from domestic sources.
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Fibre 2 Fashion
1/30/2009
The U.S. House of Representatives adopted by voice vote an amendment offered by Congressman Larry Kissell (D-NC) to H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that would mandate that any textile and apparel products…
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Greenville News
1/28/2009
The House stimulus bill that passed Wednesday evening expanded benefits for U.S. textile makers that require federal agencies under the Department of Homeland Security to buy U.S.-made uniforms.
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Burlington (NC) Times News
1/10/2009
Limits on Chinese textile imports to the United States expired at the end of 2008, causing officials at North Carolina textile firms to worry about competing with a government-subsidized industry.
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