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NPR (Scott Horsley) - Federal Reserve looks for 'secret sauce' behind a successful Wisconsin tool maker

Business is booming for Snap-on, a Wisconsin company that has made tools for professional mechanics for more than a century. It recently got a fact-finding visit from the head of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

NPR (Andrea Hsu) - This factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work

A GE Appliances plant in rural northwest Georgia was short hundreds of workers amid COVID-19. A flexible work option where some workers can sign up for shifts through an app has eased the pain.

REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Texas Shipbuilding Boom: Davie Starts $1B Facility for New Arctic Icebreakers

NYTIMES (Patricia Cohen and Alexis Pazoumian) - A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs

A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.

JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Energy consortium makes investment into building first coal plant in US in past 13 years

If the plant is permitted and constructed, it will be the first new coal-fired power plant in the U.S. since 2013, when the Sandy Creek Plant in Texas came online.

NYTIMES (Jack Ewing) - Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs

Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support for electric vehicles.