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Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.
May 1, 2025
President Joe Biden waits to speak during a visit to the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset River to promote infrastructure spending Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Woodstock, N.H.
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Biden Pushes Electric Vehicle Chargers as Energy Costs Spike
The new infrastructure law features $7.5 billion for electric vehicle chargers.
November 17, 2021
In this Oct. 12, 2020 photo, a worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo.
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Largest Meat Producer Getting Back Online After Cyberattack
The cyber breach could contribute to already rising meat prices.
June 2, 2021
President Joe Biden participates virtually in the CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, April 12, 2021, in Washington. Seated with Biden are Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Adviser and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, clockwise from bottom left, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
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Biden: US Needs to Invest, Lead in Computer Chips
He said the country hasn’t made big investments to stay ahead of global competitors, and it needs to step up its game.
April 12, 2021
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a house party at former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's house, Monday, July 15, 2019, in Waukee, Iowa.
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Biden Touts Plan to Boost Rural Mfg
The plan pledges to invest in "bio-based manufacturing" to bring jobs back to rural America by using agricultural byproducts in manufacturing.
July 17, 2019
In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers questions during a presidential forum held by She The People, on the Texas State University campus in Houston. On Sunday, May 5, 2019, Sanders proposed a sweeping agriculture and rural investment plan to break up big agriculture monopolies and shift farm subsidies toward small family farmers.
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Sanders Calls for Breakup of Big Ag
He would also ban "vertically integrated" agribusinesses — companies that control multiple levels of production and processing of a product.
May 6, 2019
In this March 1, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to local residents during an organizing event in Dubuque, Iowa. Warren is everywhere in the first three months of her presidential campaign: 11 states as of Tuesday. But where she's not is at the top of early 2020 polls.
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Warren Proposes Breaking Up Big Ag
Warren says family farms struggle because of bad decisions in Washington.
March 27, 2019