Preliminary numbers show the industry lost about 68,000 between Dec. 1, 2024, and Dec. 1, 2025. Additionally, the chemical ...

In modern plants, robots are no longer confined to fenced-off welding cells, they work side by side with people, changing the ...

Winton Machine, an Atlanta-based manufacturer, is desperate to hire. So far, there are few takers. CEO and cofounder Lisa Winton has been searching for a salesperson since March. A mechanist job has ...

"Jobs in factories will come roaring back into our country," said President Trump when he announced reciprocal tariffs last month. "We will supercharge our domestic industrial base." The American ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. According to the White House, manufacturing jobs are roaring ...

President Trump has been upending the global economy in the name of bringing manufacturing back. President Joe Biden signed into law massive investments aimed at doing something similar. The American ...

Trumpian types are unanimous: America needs factories. The president describes how workers have “watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our ...

Mr. Rattner, a contributing Opinion writer, served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. For more than 60 years, my family owned a small paint factory in Long Island City ...

For every 20 positions, there’s one qualified candidate, says one manufacturing chief executive. Some of President Trump’s policies are likely to exacerbate the problem. A factory that makes copper ...

Today in the Planet Money newsletter: If manufacturing jobs are so great, why aren't more Americans doing the ones we already have? And what can the industry and the government potentially do to ...