Fortune (April 14)
“The White House promised a manufacturing renaissance. Instead, the factory floor keeps shrinking…. During Trump’s first year back in the White House, the manufacturing sector alone shed 108,000 jobs—even as the administration touted a coming ‘manufacturing boom.’” The trajectory has not improved. As of this March, there have been about 150,000 net job losses per year in the manufacturing and construction sectors.
Tags: 150k, Construction, Factory floor, Job losses, Manufacturing, Manufacturing boom, Renaissance, Shrinking, Trump, White House
Financial Times (February 12)
“One of the challenges faced by Tokyo as it prepares for the Olympics is living up to the last time it hosted the games, in 1964. The challenge is not practical (the games will in all likelihood run like clockwork) but thematic…. Today’s construction boom in central Tokyo… is being pitched as the renaissance of a city that has been straining for 30 years to pull off a second comeback.”
Tags: 1964, Challenges, Clockwork, Comeback, Construction boom, Olympics, Renaissance, Tokyo
