Container vessels, 18-wheelers, boxcars: these are probably the first things that come to mind when we think of freight. While ships, trucks, and railroads are some of the most significant components of freight, very complex systems and networks are also in place to support moving the goods that businesses and consumers want and need to nearly every corner on the planet. Of course, without actual goods, there is nothing to move, leading experts to refer to freight activities as goods movement.
In the U.S., there ae very large concentrations of manufacturing activities and facilities that produce goods in and around urban centers. These success or failure industries affect everything from the gross domestic product of the U.S. to the paychecks
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These businesses are often referred to as goods movement dependent industries. In the SCAG region , five of these industries comprise the vast majority of businesses that drive the regional goods movement activities that are directly linked to the localized economy: manufacturing, construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, and logistics and warehousing. These five industry sectors contributed approximately $2.9 billion to the SCAG Gross Regional Product (GRP) and over 2.9 million jobs throughout the region. That is thirty-three (33) percent of GRP and thirty-five (35) percent of regional jobs, respectively. Manufacturing contributed the largest amount to regional GRP of the five industries in 2013 contributing $107 billion, or about eight 8 percent, to overall regional GRP. Of the five goods movement dependent industries, manufacturing contributed the largest share at 36 percent of GRP. However, manufacturing in the U.S. and the SCAG region is declining as evidenced by a number of major indicators including number of establishments and employees . In addition, while annual payrolls in the manufacturing sector are increasing, in the SCAG region they are doing so more slowly than other comparable industries (including other goods movement dependent industries), declining versus earlier years, and at a rate lower than inflation. …show more content…
Los Angeles County had the most manufacturing establishments at nearly 12,500, followed by Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, and Imperial Counties (Table 1). The number of manufacturing establishments in the SCAG region, particularly Los Angeles County, contribute to the region having the 2nd most manufacturing establishments in the nation , behind only the state of California itself. Los Angeles County alone ranks 7th in terms of the number of manufacturing
In this chapter, the author highlights the failing economy of Northeast Ohio. After the decline of the steel industry, the region lost tens of thousand of jobs and thousands of citizens moved out as a result. Although the region saw a slight boost in their economic growth, they were comparably slow to many other metropolitan areas in the country.
In order to begin to understand this intricate movement and its many facets, it is vital to note the relevance of consumer culture during this time period, and the role it played in altering the course of the suffrage movement. Historian Margaret Finnegan dives into the finer points of this juxtaposition in her book, Selling Suffrage, her main argument insinuating that the two aforementioned subjects indeed go hand in hand. By the end of this work, the author identified numerous ways in which suffragists used different avenues of consumer culture to promote their agenda, and peddle their suffrage products and ideas. In order to support this thesis, Finnegan dissected the very roots of consumer culture, finding significance in subjects like fashion, alcohol, advertisement, theatrical performance and film, public speaking, and capitalism. It is intriguing to note how
Kansas City, Missouri is located at the intersection of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. It is the biggest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area; the most crowded city in Missouri, the seventh biggest city in the Midwest, and the 39th most crowded city in America. Additionally, the location of the city makes it an ideal transportation hub and the most geo-focal market in the country, since three interstate highways serve it. Kansas City has a diverse economy including health care, telecommunications, legal services, manufacturing, governmental services, trade, and financial services. The locale gives access to more than a million employments in more than seven hundred occupations. Key employers in the region include the manufacturing sector taking up 10% of the employment opportunities, the services sector at 48% and the wholesale and retail sector at 14%. In the essay, I will analyze the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of Kansas City Missouri for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2015.
A Veterinary Assistant salary according to salary.com is 28,485. However, not all Veterinary Assistants have the same salary because it depends on how long they have been in the field. Also, it depends on the company size, location, and how many years of education and experience they have obtained. Vocation of veterinary technologists is relied upon to grow up to 41 percent in 2006-2016 projection period which is much speedier than the normal for all occupations. Pet proprietors are turning out to be more rich and all the more ready to pay for cutting edge veterinary consideration in light of the fact that a number of them consider their pet to be a part of the family. This developing luxuriousness and perspective of pets will keep on expanding
With manufacturing moving overseas in the past several decades and America currently having a trade deficit it would be difficult for Hartford to redevelop itself as one of the most important manufacturing cities in America. On the contrary, Hartford can use its past to place itself as one of the most important manufacturing cities in America. For instance, it can argue the fact that Colt came up with the idea of mass production and started running his business out of Hartford, that it was the city of Hartford who was the first to place itself as an industrial city in America. As the United States also faces challenges in regaining some of its success in the past back in manufacturing, it must end the habit of companies shipping all of the manufacturing jobs overseas and restore the
Advanced Manufacturing is a multitude of different things that all fall under the same name. Advanced Manufacturing is using things such as automation, computation, software, sensors, and networks to manufacture products new and old. The advanced manufacturing today is much more than the image of assembly lines and forklifts, with most of the factories today being mostly automated. With most the factories having machines there need to be people who can operate, maintain, and repair the machines.
BACKGROUND: Illinois is one of the nation 's manufacturing leaders, boasting annual value added productivity by manufacturing of over $107 billion in 2006. As of 2011, Illinois is ranked as the 4th most productive manufacturing state in the country, behind California, Texas, and Ohio. About three-quarters of the state 's manufacturers are located in the Northeastern Opportunity Return Region, with 38 percent of Illinois ' approximately 18,900 manufacturing plants located in
Today’s economy is more than a local practice; our economy encompasses a global scale of production and efficiency. All industries in the world rely on each other, especially in the economy of the United States. The industrial
Transportation is one of the largest industries in the world. It is the most costly and time consuming of the supply chain. Transportation refers to the movement of products and raw materials from one destination to another. This process begins from the supply chain to the shipping of the finished product to the consumer. For we know that products are rarely produced in the same location. We as people depend on transportation because it moves goods and people from one place to another.
Detroit, Michigan once stood as the epitome of industrial American cities. In the mid 1990s Detroit had the highest income per capita and a booming automotive industry. During prohibition in the 1920s Detroit served as a major gateway for the importation of alcohol from Canada, whereby it thrived from this lucrative business. Also, around this same time the automotive industry was growing at a pace where jobs were begging to be filled, and the population of Detroit rose to nearly 2,000,000. There was a point in time where many other major U.S. cities envied Detroit and were jealous of its ever growing economy and infrastructure. At this time it seemed as though nothing would stop the economic growth of the Motor City. Sadly, these are
The lack of job growth can have a tremendous effect on any city. The problem with the city of El Paso is that they aren 't confident enough to believe that the city can handle big industries such as high- tech companies. The city is bringing in more and more retail jobs each year, along with call centers and other service sectors. El Paso has talent and that talent is leaving due to the lack of economic growth. They follow bigger industries in other cities and leave the borderland behind. College graduates in El Paso are unemployed for a long period of time, and decide to look for better opportunities in other successful cities. A few questions we need to ask ourselves are: How can bigger industries help improve the local economic climate,
The book advised analyzing employment data with a location quotient, a ratio of industries represented locally to one of a reference economy. This is a valuable equation for determining industry growth at a fixed period. When the OCOG chose target industries for Miami, the specialized index would have assisted analysts in predicting future economic changes and which sectors will provide the most employment opportunities across all skill and income levels. As discussed in the Cincinnati, Ohio Cluster Case study, after the LQ, analysts would determine the occupational LQ to assess the skill base of the current workforce. Measuring job growth rates by sector and comparison with national trends would predict areas with healthy economies and those expected to grow. Furthermore, cluster identification uses input/output analysis and local and national reports to unmask growing industries and relate dependency or competitiveness between businesses while identifying industries statistically inclined to grow.
Contribution of the Computer and Electronic Products Industry to State-Level Manufacturing Growth The nationwide pattern of strong manufacturing output growth in combination with a
It has been nine years since the Financial Crash of 2008, yet some cities are still in the same recession. High growth cities, like Los Angeles and New York City are creating economic struggles in decaying industrial towns (Sparshott, 2017). How are these correlated? It is human nature to want to be where successful people are. Those in small decaying towns see the citizens of Los Angeles prospering, consequently, people who are capable will move to these high growth cities and leave behind their hometowns. The population left behind are commonly unemployed or possess low-income jobs. Some U.S. cities are still suffering from the recession of 2008 due to low government revenue from people flocking to cities with more opportunities and
Within transportation, there are a lot of different modes to transport items. The modes are land, water, pipeline, air, and railroad. The modes used by most companies is air and land. Two companies that use these modes are Ups and FedEx. With Ups and FedEx in these modes, consumers and manufactures are able to ship and receive items.