To understand one of the biggest challenges American manufacturers face, walk halfway down the assembly line at the Alene Candles factory in New Albany, Ohio. That’s where workers stand on ...

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When Kyanna Parsons-Perez was planning her 40th birthday celebrations, she'd never envisioned that it would take place as she lay trapped under the debris of a collapsed candle factory in Kentucky.