Research and Commentary

Chicago’s Promise as a Manufacturing Policy Leader

February 26, 2013, Howard Wial

Locating Chicago Manufacturing: The Geography of Production in Metropolitan Chicago

February 25, 2013, Howard Wial

Did Manufacturing Job Losses Hold the Midwest Back?

May 14, 2012, Howard Wial

Locating American Manufacturing: Trends in the Geography of Production

May 2012, Susan Helper, Timothy Krueger and Howard Wial

Interactive: Locating American Manufacturing

May 9, 2012, Howard Wial

Despite Slowdown, Manufacturing Still Important

March 30, 2012, Howard Wial

Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in America’s 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas

March 28, 2012, Siddharth Kulkarni and Howard Wial

Around the Halls: The Republican Primaries and Super Tuesday

March 5, 2012, Gary Burtless, Bill Frenzel, Jonathan Rauch, Audrey Singer, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Howard Wial

Why Does Manufacturing Matter? Which Manufacturing Matters?

February 22, 2012, Susan Helper, Timothy Krueger and Howard Wial

Manufacturing Job Loss Is Not Inevitable

February 22, 2012, Howard Wial

Manufacturing is Special: Why America Needs Its Makers

February 9, 2012, Howard Wial

The Outsized Benefits of U.S. Manufacturing

February 6, 2012, Jonathan Rothwell and Howard Wial

Wall Street, Main Street, and Wages After the Bailouts

December 15, 2011, Howard Wial

Where the Top Income Earners in the United States Live

October 31, 2011, Howard Wial

The Geography of Our Falling-Wage Recovery

September 16, 2011, Howard Wial

Responding to Manufacturing Job Loss: What Can Economic Development Policy Do?

June 2011, Patricia Atkins, Pamela Blumenthal, Leah Curran, Adrienne Edisis, Alec Friedhoff, Lisa Lowry, Travis St. Clair, Howard Wial and Harold Wolman

The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership: A Step Toward a Federal Manufacturing Strategy?

June 29, 2011, Howard Wial

Government Jobs and the Economic Recovery in Metropolitan America

June 22, 2011, Howard Wial

Government Employment and Economic Recovery

June 22, 2011, Howard Wial

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Are State and Local Government Workers Sharing the Pain of Job Cuts?

March 14, 2011, Howard Wial

Accelerating Advanced Manufacturing with New Research Centers

February 8, 2011, Susan Helper and Howard Wial

Will Full Employment Ever Return to Detroit?

January 20, 2011, Howard Wial

The Consequences of Metropolitan Manufacturing Decline: Testing Conventional Wisdom

December 16, 2010, Alec Friedhoff, Howard Wial and Harold Wolman

For Car Country, Could the Mourning Become Electric?

November 24, 2010, Howard Wial

Strengthening American Manufacturing: A New Federal Approach

September 27, 2010, Susan Helper and Howard Wial