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U.S. manufacturing creates quality jobs, fuels exports and drives innovation. President Obama has proposed tax reforms to encourage the manufacturing sector while some members of Congress disagree with the specifics. Brookings experts examine manufacturing and how it can contribute to economic growth.

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Drive! Moving Tennessee's Automotive Sector Up the Value Chain

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro, Scott Andes, Kenan Fikri, Martha Ross, Jessica Lee, Neil G. Ruiz and Nick Marchio

The Metropolitan Policy Program finds that the automotive industry plays a critical role in the Tennessee economy and explores the new competitive environment that will challenge the state going forward.

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  • In the News

    Tennessee needs to complement its cost appeal with new production efficiency, top-flight workforce training, and a flare for product and process innovation.

    October 4, 2013, Mark Muro, The Examiner

  • In the News

    Cities are starting to take control of their economic future. They aren't waiting for Washington.

    August 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, TIME

  • In the News

    We don't want to promote a zero-sum competition between regions in the U.S. If we want to focus on advanced manufacturing, as we should, I think the moderately high-tech industries are a good place to start. When companies are clustered together it tends to attract the kind of skilled labor force that they need and attract the suppliers that they do business with.

    February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, ChicagoBusiness.com

  • In the News

    There is nothing wrong with moderately high-tech industries—Germany has developed a very productive and innovative manufacturing sector based on them.

    February 25, 2013, Howard Wial, Chicago Sun-Times

  • In the News

    As a relatively high-cost nation, the only way the United States can regain manufacturing competitiveness is through innovation and productivity, both of which are driven by engineering capabilities that are cultivated, in part, by the nation’s institutions of higher education.

    February 14, 2013, Robert D. Atkinson

  • In the News

    Detroit can be a petri dish for a lot of different kinds of innovation.

    September 12, 2012, Bruce Katz, Detroit Free Press

  • In the News

    [The Ohio River Valley has] rejected the narrative of decline and the theory that we would be just fine if we designed our goods here, but produced them offshore. What’s turning out to be the case is that production can occur here. Our strongest industrial sectors are still based in that very region of the country.

    September 5, 2012, Mark Muro, New York Times

  • In the News

    Detroit is the home of the Big Three. But a lot of sophisticated advanced manufacturing in Grand Rapids—absolutely pummeled in the recession and even the lead up to the recession. But manufacturing and exports of manufactured goods have been one of the strongest drivers.

    June 27, 2012, Alan Berube, Marketplace

  • In the News

    Now, talking about freight, moving goods from Point A to Point B is not the kind of discussion that is likely to stir the blood in most people. But it is part of the economic lifeblood of major metros like Detroit. Aging infrastructure acts like cholesterol in our economy's arteries, and we need to clean that out if we're going to be competitive in the modern global marketplace. To grow jobs in the short term and build a solid economy for the long term, metropolitan areas like Detroit need to build on their strengths.

    June 25, 2012, Robert Puentes, The Huffington Post

  • In the News

    Manufacturing matters to exports, and global market access is the key to the future of manufacturing.

    June 11, 2012, Amy Liu, Business First

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