Clients in the News
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Two years after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people in Haiti, scenes of desperation remain. A cholera outbreak has claimed thousands of lives. An estimated 100,000 people became amputees from injuries suffered in the quake. Mental illness, brought by lingering trauma from the destruction, remains a challenge, officials say.Read more...
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Arlington, VA—The United States lost 28 percent of its high-technology manufacturing jobs over the last decade, as the nation’s rapidly shrinking lead in science and technology in the global marketplace was accompanied by a toll on U.S. high-tech jobs, according to a new study released today by the National Science Board (NSB), the policy making body for the National Science Foundation.Read more...
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Tricom worked with Steel Valley Authority's Strategic Early Warning Network (SEWN) to announce the opening of their new office in Philadelphia. SEWN is a strategic consulting and layoff aversion program that provides free services to companies that need help saving jobs, and since 1993, SEWN has helped save nearly 18,000 jobs in Pennsylvania.Read more...
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In the News Cheap China goods cost NY 161K jobs-- NY PostAmericans’ mad craving for low-cost goods from China has come at a shocking price: The loss of 161,400 jobs in the past decade. And some 300,000 New York jobs now hang in the balance in the next decade.
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If policymakers weren't wringing their hands enough about low college-graduation rates, now a new study puts a dollar figure on the lost income from young men and women who never complete their degrees. The American Institutes for Research, a behavioral and social-science research organization in Washington, analyzed nearly 1.1 million students that started college in 2002 and found nearly 500,000 dropped out within six years. From that, AIR estimated the difference in their potential earning power as college graduates vs. workers without a degree.Read more...
Client Press Releases
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1.6 Million More Jobs at Risk from Illegal Subsidies WTO Violations Threaten Jobs Recovery in U.S. Auto IndustryWashington D.C.— More than 400,000 jobs in the U.S. auto supply chain have been lost since 2000 and another 1.6 million U.S. jobs are at risk unless China's illegal trading practices are curtailed, according to three separate reports released today. "Taken together, these three reports show beyond a shadow of a doubt that China's blatant use of illegal government subsidies and a web of predatory trade practices on a massive scale are undercutting companies in the U.S. auto supply chain," said Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a non-profit, non-partisan partnership of leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers.Read more...
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Cure Alzheimer’s Fund To Host Panel Discussion on Alzheimer’s Robert Bazell, NBC Chief Science and Health Correspondent,
Will Moderate Panel Boston—Advancements made in research and treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease will be just some of the topics discussed at the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund 2011 Fall Symposium on Oct. 18. The event is free and open to all, and those interested in learning more about the progress being made in Alzheimer’s research are encouraged to attend.Read more...
Tricom News
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Tricom went on the road in October with the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) to produce and promote 12 town hall meetings in 10 states in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections. Read more...
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Tricom welcomes three new organizations to our client family: the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, the Steel Valley Authority and the American Federation of School Administrators. Read more...