President Trump’s second term has been marked by a flurry of company pledges to expand production in the United States. From ...

The charts above are based on new data from the United Nations on GDP and its components for more than 200 countries, updated through 2012. Here are some highlights of the UN’s data update: 1. The top ...

The first decade of this century was pretty awful for manufacturing workers. In December of 1999 we had 17.3 million manufacturing jobs. This number had fallen to 11.5 million by December of 2009.

One of Donald Trump's major themes in his bid for the presidency was the ineptitude of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He called NAFTA the "worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but ...

Is manufacturing a good bet in America these days? The talk about reshoring, in which companies return to the United States those operations that they had previously located in a foreign country, is ...

IIoT, the industrial sector of the IoT, integrates sensing and actuation systems in manufacturing, and allows for data collection, exchange and analysis, improved productivity, predictive maintenance, ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Middle-class jobs are in increasingly short supply in San Diego, which is why local leaders ...

You can be bearish and point to the potential for a double dip all you want (I certainly do). But to dismiss out of hand the huge uptick in manufacturing is just crazy. These numbers are off the ...

The United States has a cultural obsession with manufacturing. When policymakers stump about job growth and job creation, they often focus on manufacturing jobs. But for more than 60 years, the number ...