West Virginia factory is center stage in supply chain crisis, showing economy’s strains David J. Lynch PRICHARD, W.Va. Whenever the Sogefi plant here runs out of resin or computer chips or cardboard boxes or wooden pallets or really anything at all, it’s Randy Simpkins’s problem. And whenever one of Sogefi’s customers howls about a late shipment, that’s Simpkins’s problem, too. These days, Simpkins has plenty of problems. The 42-year-old logistics manager is smack in the middle of a global supply chain crisis that reaches from factories in Europe to giant cargo ships anchored off the Atlantic coast, all the way to this rural hamlet of fewer than 300 residents.
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US jobs report preview: will the recovery continue to build after March stimulus boost
Friday’s US jobs report is widely expected to bring payrolls closer to one-million, but how much of the recent gain was down to the recent $1.9 trillion stimulus package?
Joshua Mahony | Senior Market Analyst, London | Publication date: 2021-05-06T13:50:21+0100
The April US jobs report is due to be released at 1.30pm, on Friday 7 May. Coming in the midst of an economic recovery, this is the latest opportunity for the US economy to show just how the recovery is progressing at the hands of widespread stimulus and lessening Covid-19 restrictions.
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