Undaunted by his predecessor’s failure to spark a manufacturing renaissance, President Trump also dreams of reindustrializing America. He won’t succeed either, because no president has the power to ...

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 ...

From behind our keyboards, it’s sometimes hard for the laptop class to believe that anyone in America actually wants to, say, work in a sneaker factory. Progress, to a certain sort of progressive ...

“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.

"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 ...

This is Part 2 in our series on manufacturing in America. Part 1 asked why Americans aren't filling the manufacturing jobs that are already here. Subscribe to the Planet Money newsletter for the next ...

About 350 Whirlpool factory workers in rural Iowa will lose their jobs on March 9 — a blow to a community where the plant has anchored the local economy for eight decades. The layoffs are also another ...

In Donald Trump’s imagination, trillions of dollars are being invested in the United States. In the real world, factory construction, adjusted for inflation, was down by more than 10 percent from its ...

American manufacturers have a workforce problem: finding people who want this work and have the right skills. One fix? Getting teenagers interested in factory jobs. In high school, Genesis Gomez took ...

Trump's administration said they want tariffs to boost US manufacturing, and most Americans want more factory jobs here. But what makes us... Americans still dream about factory jobs. Can they be ...