We need to redouble our efforts now. We are falling way behind in manufacturing. An export strategy or a green jobs strategy is at best a half policy.

There's an explanation for why this "onshoring" myth has been perpetuated: it's what multinational companies want you to think.

President Obama acknowledges that one in three U.S. manufacturing jobs depends on exports, and yet he has failed to advance a trade agenda that would result in more U.S. manufacturing jobs and sales.

There's still a chance that the U.S. could get back the money it invested in saving General Motors from collapse during the recent financial crisis, b...

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

WASHINGTON — Manufacturing job gains in the Midwest helped lower the nation's economic stress in April to its lowest point in five months, accor...

It's time to start separating the real economy from the casino economy. And to make sure that with all the talk in Washington about "jobs," we don't let the platitudes become a substitute for urgently needed policies.

Increasing wages in China represent a step toward more balanced world trade, and it's a good thing for Chinese workers and their American counterparts.

By demonizing China into abandoning their currency policy and allowing the renminbi to float, the US risks upsetting a delicate economic balance between both countries.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman are wrong to think that we can simply scale up R&D to a degree where it can be equally traded for the huge quantity of things we need but don't make in this country.

JANESVILLE, Wis. — In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, ...

In the effort to create jobs, we should be turning to opportunities where the U.S. controls the situation, can move unilaterally at it's own pace, and where we have clear-cut competitive advantages.

In his State of the Union Address, the president's aversion to addressing manufacturing left little doubt that deference to the financialization of the economy continues to trump any hope of reinvigorating industrial employment.

CONOVER, N.C. (MIKE BAKER -- AP) - As record numbers of orders flow through Legacy Furniture Group's manufacturing plant, workers toil between towers ...

Signs of revival on the factory floor emerged in the United States and Asia on Monday, fueling exultant buying on Wall Street and reinforcing a sense ...