Devon Manz: When Energy Is Distributed, Everyone Benefits
Distributed power provides the reliable, low-cost electricity needed to support economic growth regardless of weather or infrastructure conditions. Utilities should embrace its potential.
Rep. Dave Reichert: Let’s Take a Bipartisan Path to Economic Growth — With Trade
Trade Promotion Authority will clear the way for job-creating trade agreements.
Linda Dempsey: To Grow Manufacturing In America, Look Beyond Our Borders
The Ex-Im Bank and Trade Promotion Authority are essential for U.S. global competitiveness. Congress and the administration need to recognize it, and act.
Tony Fratto: The Export-Import Bank Isn’t a Problem — It’s a Solution
The Ex-Im Bank is a crucial tool to ensure small businesses can compete to sell their goods overseas, supporting high-paying jobs. Reauthorization should be a no-brainer.
Of all the problems confronting the U.S. economy today, exporting too much isn’t one of them. In fact, one problem America faces is that it exports too little.
The Jobs Bank — How the Export-Import Bank Supports Job Creation Across America
By providing financing for exports when private banks won’t, the Export-Import Bank helps small businesses in every state reach overseas customers. That means higher-paying jobs at home.
The Export-Import Bank isn’t your typical bank. The independent, self-sustaining agency functions as a key engine of job creation across America.
John Murphy: How U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Depend on Trade Agreements
U.S. factory workers see brighter prospects, higher pay thanks to trade.
Edward Gerwin, Jr.: Why the Export-Import Bank Is a Main Street, Not a Washington, Institution
On real “Main Streets” across America, from Idaho to California to Maine, the Ex-Im Bank supports U.S. jobs.
On Main Streets across America, small businesses are a critical source of economic growth and good jobs. Over the past two decades, entrepreneurs and small firms have generated an astounding 65 percent of America’s net new jobs. Small businesses that export drive even greater growth.
Jim Kessler and Gabe Horwitz: Not Your Dad’s Trade Deals
Since NAFTA, U.S. trade agreements have improved the U.S. balance of trade in goods with 13 out of the 17 countries involved. That bodes well for higher-standard deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Do you have to like NAFTA to want a trade deal with Asia?
Trade skeptics contend that past trade agreements failed to deliver, and they point to NAFTA as an agreement that changed our trade balance with Mexico from one of surpluses to one of deficits.
Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale: Why the Debate Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership is Misguided
Focus instead on building the skills to take advantage of all it offers.
Stuart Ridgway: How To Use Data To Unlock Overseas Markets
All sorts of data is generated by the U.S. government that could help small businesses tap into overseas markets. Here’s how to turn that information into sales.
Expanding overseas to sell your goods and services can be daunting, with a seemingly limitless number of markets to target. Yet just as Big Data is creating smarter healthcare solutions and predictive machines, trade data can be a powerful tool in searching the globe for the right customer.