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A few days ago, I explained how economists and policymakers destroyed our economy for the sake of short-term corporate profits from jobs offshoring and financial deregulation. That same week Business Week published an article, “Factory Jobs Are...

Date: 18-11-2016 Source: Technology Review President-elect Trump’s promise to bring back production jobs ignores the realities of advanced manufacturing. Pundits will debate the wellsprings of Donald Trump’s election triumph for years. Right now...

Betty McCray, 53, has moved around a bit in her lifetime. She’s worked as a chef, a nursing home attendant and a welder. Throughout, she says proudly, she has “worked union,” even in states with anti-labor right-to-work laws, such as...

Community College of Allegheny County West Hills Center Campus Oakdale, Pennsylvania 4:05 P.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hi, everybody. Good to be back in Pennsylvania. That other guy is coming. (Laughter.) He’s coming. He’s coming. Good...

Contents Executive summary While U.S. manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. economy. The manufacturing sector employed 12 million...