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 ...
Why is America's National Association of Manufacturers echoing the Cato Institute's views against American manufacturing? Has this organization lost its way? Do NAM members know about this?
Manufacturing is essential to rebuilding our economy and moving away from the debt-driven boom bust cycles of the past.
We need to create jobs that have a multiplier effect and that build on our comparative advantage. When we think about where to put stimulus funds, someone has to stand up for manufacturing.
Face it, if we do not have an active and engaged industrial policy we are handing the business over to those who do. It is time to start discussing a national plan for manufacturing.
Robust manufacturing capacity is not only essential if we are to achieve energy independence and equip our military, it is the key to global competitiveness in emerging markets.
For nine years, the Strong brothers, Mark and Tim, made tools in their machine shop to maintain the giant presses that stamped steel sheets into fende...
With the world economy now looking remarkably like Argentina's in 2001 (and for many of the same reasons) there is a new wave of direct action among workers in rich countries.
We need to make more things here. Developing new technology and consuming alone do not make for a stable economy, but that's been our economic strategy for the past decade.
The Dow breaks 7,000 and suddenly we're on the road to recovery? No, Wall Street is shutting out a continued torrent of real and painful economic news from communities all across America.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Rowe International Corp. says it will move the production of its jukeboxes to Mexico after nearly a century of making them...
If the destruction of capitalism and the arc of history were responsible for American manufacturing's steep decline, there would be a legitimate debate about whether it's worth saving.
Unlike Joe, Troy Galloway, who works at the Gamesa wind turbine plant in Pennsylvania, is an actual turbine builder, goes by his first name, and has never owed back taxes.
Over the last few years, sustaining Ohio has become less profitable for automakers. When the state began to run at a loss, the Big Three began selling off pieces to Germany and Japan.
The GOP must believe it can make inroads into Youngstown's urban community, because this month the second-biggest buy on the city's hip-hop air waves was made by the Mahoning County Republican Party.
I think Senator McCain will probably win in November because what North Americans value most is security, stability and experience, and that is McCain.
Today everyone will learn what we here at UNITE HERE already knew -- that if you bother to buy fair trade coffee your suit should be "fair trade" too -- and by that I mean union made.
McCain says "Drill here, drill now!" to reduce the price of gas, but every time the price of oil goes up, more jobs return from China, and first to the basic heavy industries like steel. Why does he hate the rust belt states? Or, for that matter, Mexico?
Our desire for certainty and reference points about the unemployment rate has turned these vague and loose statistics into Holy Grails of certainty. They aren't.
While Gov. Jennifer Granholm has come over strongly to Obama, waving a blue heeled shoe in the air on one occasion, Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer has been conspicuously inarticulate.
WASHINGTON — The economy has weakened since the start of this year as shoppers turned even more cautious given the severe housing slump and pain...
Health care, education and financial services--if you're looking for work in the coming decades, these are the fields to get into. What to avoid? The...
