President Trump’s push to shift tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. is raising concerns and costs for many ...

Gen Z is ditching corporate careers to become electricians and plumbers. Yet they’re turning their noses up at factory jobs ...

President Trump says his tariff plan will restore American manufacturing might, but economists are skeptical.

Trump imposed the tariffs because, as he stated, Americans should manufacture the products Americans buy. American ...

Economists say the U.S. manufacturing decline in recent decades was not mainly about free trade, but about the pace of change ...

While critics have been pointing out the flaws in Trump’s logic as well as economics, economic historian Niall Ferguson has ...

An extreme, protracted trade war between the U.S. and China brings profound risks that could plunge millions of people into ...

In the 1950s, around 35% of private-sector jobs in the U.S. were in manufacturing. Today, there are 12.8 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S., an amount equal to 9.4% of those private-sector jobs.

When President Donald Trump has talked about the need for higher tariffs on imports of foreign goods because of a decline in American manufacturing, he has often made the claim that "90,000 plants and ...

If the goal is to future-proof a national economy that can thrive in the rest of the 21st century, revitalizing manufacturing won’t be enough.

This has long been the key argument behind protectionist policies like Trump’s: They will bring manufacturing jobs back to ...