SHERMAN, Miss. (AP) -- The planned February closing of the Bauhaus USA Inc. upholstered furniture plant here will cost 139 jobs, the latest setback for the area's troubled furniture industry. Furniture maker and retailer La-Z-Boy announced last month ...

Second-tier jobs will have clout in Obama era - MSNBC

WASHINGTON — We all know who the new secretary of state will be in president-elect Barack Obama’s administration. But we don’t yet know most of the second-tier appointees — people who may appear to have obscure jobs but who could end up being ...

Correction: Rochester newspaper job cuts story - Forbes

In a Dec. 2 story about job cuts at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, The Associated Press reported erroneously the location of the Gannett Co. 's headquarters. It is in McLean, Va., not Arlington, Va. A corrected version of the story appears ...

Akadema Inc brings baseball glove manufacturing back to the USA - pressbox.co.uk

(Press Release) - Nov 26, 2008 - In August 2008, Akadema Inc did what very few American companies do these days. They brought American manufacturing home and created jobs for American craftsmen. Since the 1950's the American baseball glove ...

Chamber proposes guest worker program - ksl.com

The Salt Lake Chamber spent more time and money lobbying than any other group on pro-illegal immigrant issues during the last legislative session. They are almost singlehandedly responsible for the delay in implementing legislation regarding ...