West

Gender-neutral toys for children gain ground

New efforts are underway to eliminate gender bias in the toy industry, including a new state law and other efforts to stop marketing children’s toys based on gender.

California shipping backlog hits manufacturing businesses

The shipping backlog at the Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, ports is not expected to ease up any time soon. Many western manufacturing and production companies ship in products from overseas by ship, and many of their products have been sitting on those ships for weeks to months.