MarketWatch: Without irony, Walmart offers ideas to boost US manufacturing sector

Published
July 28, 2017 - 11:30am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

"Without irony, Wal-Mart Stores on Wednesday outlined its recommendations to improve the U.S. manufacturing sector," writes Steve Goldstein for MarketWatch. "Wal-Mart could arguably be said to be a contributor to the demise of U.S. manufacturing, with its rapacious sourcing of consumer goods from China as it became the nation's dominant retailer. A 2015 estimate from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said Wal-Mart's trade deficit with China had displaced more than 400,000 U.S. jobs."

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To read the suggestions from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., please visit A Policy Roadmap to Renew U.S. Manufacturing.

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