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A worker makes final preparations after installing the motherboard on the reverse side of a 32-inch TV at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina May 29, 2014. When Walmart pledged last year to buy an extra $250 billion in U.S.-made goods over the next decade, it appeared to be just what was needed to help move America's putative manufacturing renaissance from rhetoric to reality. The company says consumers can now buy everything from U.S.-made flat-screen TVs, light bulbs and towels and curtains in its stores and on its website. The flat-screen TVs, made in Winnsboro, South Carolina by Element Electronics, may be the campaign?s biggest surprise to date. Today, Element?s 315,000-square-foot plant in South Carolina has six assembly lines making 32- and 40-inch TVs that are now available in all of Walmart's more than 4,000 U.S. Stores. The switch has led to significant savings in ocean freight charges and customs duties on finished goods - though like so many companies involved in the initiative Element has had difficulty finding domestic suppliers. To match Feature WALMART-RESHORING/ Picture taken May 29, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1EA6411FR01

U.S. Economy

Why wages aren’t growing in America

Jay Shambaugh and Ryan Nunn

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

A handout photo made available by the Norwegian shipowner Frontline of the crude oil tanker Front Altair after the fire onboard the ship in the Gulf of Oman, June 13, 2019. Frontline/NTB Scanpix/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NORWAY OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NORWAY - RC19F9982870

Order from Chaos

Why aren’t oil markets reacting to the attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf?

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RC1C0A78A3A0

Order from Chaos

The United States and Russia aren’t allies. But Trump and Putin are.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

The U.S. Capitol building is seen through fencing set up after the Jan. 6 assault on the building.

TechStream

Can Congress mandate meaningful transparency for tech platforms?

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

grocery store worker

The Avenue

Local COVID-19 hazard pay mandates are doing what Congress and most corporations aren’t for essential workers

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

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Markaz

Reckless politicking: Lieberman to be named Israel’s defense minister

Friday, May 20, 2016

Cyclists ride past a Likud party election campaign billboard depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and billboards depicting Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, together with his top party candidates Moshe Yaalon, Yair Lapid and Gaby Ashkenazi, in Petah Tikva, Israel April 7, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias - RC1711986540

Order from Chaos

Israeli elections primer: Final polls and what they mean

Monday, April 8, 2019

Person counting money

Up Front

If real wages aren’t rising, how is household income going up?

Ryan Nunn and Jay Shambaugh

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Solar panels in a rural area

Africa in Focus

An increased role for private sector: Mozambique’s new regulatory policy in the off-grid energy sector

Merja Laakso and Sebastian Petric

Monday, May 23, 2022

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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Essential but undervalued: Millions of health care workers aren’t getting the pay or respect they deserve in the COVID-19 pandemic

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Order from Chaos

Israel’s Netanyahu is indicted amid political gridlock

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington September 9, 2015. Classes were cancelled for 53,000 students as Seattle teachers and support staff marched in picket lines on Wednesday on what was supposed to be the first day of school, waging their first such strike in three decades after contract talks between the school district and the teachers' union failed. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight - GF10000199643

Brown Center Chalkboard

Teachers aren’t getting younger, we’re just paying them less

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Housekeeper Rosalinda Franco cleans the glass at Littleton Adventist Hospital, part of Centura Health in Littleton, Colorado, U.S. May 3, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking - D1AETCINMFAA

The Avenue

Low-wage work is more pervasive than you think, and there aren’t enough “good jobs” to go around

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government gather as they push into the last area held by Islamic State militants in Ghiza Bahriya district in Sirte, Libya November 26, 2016. REUTERS/Hani Amara - RTSTEXG

Order from Chaos

International meetings aren’t enough to save Libya

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Monday, December 12, 2016

Employees at work at an Amazon factory.

Brookings Now

Robots aren’t taking the jobs, just the paychecks—and other new findings in economics

Thursday, March 8, 2018