Mark Muro

Patenting invention: Five clean energy innovation trends Congress should know about as it weighs Trump’s ‘skinny’ budget

Mark Muro and Devashree Saha

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Wind turbines are seen in a field in Tebar, Spain, April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Sergio Perez - RTX355K7

Patenting invention: Clean energy innovation trends and priorities for the Trump administration and Congress

Devashree Saha and Mark Muro

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Farmers John Lader (L) and Austin Arndt are pictured on Arndts property just outside Janeseville, Wisconsin, U.S. November 10, 2016. Like many other rural Americans they voted for Donald Trump, in their case because of specific promises the Republican president-elect made to create jobs, cut taxes and repeal Obamacare. Picture taken on November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Nick Carey - RTSXPQ4

Trump budget would eliminate key Rust Belt supports

Friday, March 17, 2017

Workers on the assembly line replace the back covers of 32-inch television sets at Element Electronics in Winnsboro, South Carolina, U.S. on May 29, 2014. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo - RTX2QCX9

Understanding US productivity trends from the bottom-up

Joseph Parilla and Mark Muro

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Mike Morgan, a Midwest product training manager for Kenwood, sets up a display of automotive speakers as he prepares for the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 3, 2006. The show, which runs from January 5-8, is the world's largest trade show for consumer technology. The 2006 show is expected to draw 2,500 exhibitors and 130,000 attendees from more than 110 countries. REUTERS/Steve Marcus - RTR17QWN

Tech in metros: The strong are getting stronger

Mark Muro and Sifan Liu

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

A view of fog over the New York skyline as seen from the One World Trade Center during sunrise in New York May 10, 2013. Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001 attacks. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CITYSCAPE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTXZHRR

US metros most exposed to a Trump trade shock

Joseph Parilla and Mark Muro

January 30, 2017

United Auto Workers union member assembly worker Ingrid Hill works on a Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle at General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Hamtramck, Michigan July 27, 2011. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2PCOM

Maladjusted: It’s time to reimagine economic ‘adjustment’ programs

Mark Muro and Joseph Parilla

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

A designer works in the machine department at TechShop in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, California April 24, 2014. In the shadow of Internet monoliths, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building radios, microchips and other devices. Now, a proliferation of high-tech but affordable manufacturing tools and new sources of funding are empowering a generation of handy entrepreneurs and laying the foundation for a hardware renaissance. A growing focus on hardware and the so-called "Maker movement" is sweeping northern California and, in a smaller way, Europe and other countries. Renewed interest in tinkering with objects - versus apps or software - is attracting more money from investors and fostering a growing number of workshops, where aspiring inventors can get their hands on computerized milling machines and other high-end tools. Picture taken April 24, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTR3NZ57

Five ways the Maker Movement can help catalyze a manufacturing renaissance

Mark Muro and Peter Hirshberg

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

The coal-fired Castle Gate Power Plant is pictured outside Helper, Utah November 27, 2012. The plant was closed in the Spring of 2015 in anticipation of new EPA regulations. President Barack Obama will unveil on August 3, 2015 the final version of his plan to tackle greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, kicking off what is expected to be a tumultuous legal battle between federal environmental regulators and coal industry supporters. REUTERS/George Frey - RTX1MVNV

Another Clinton-Trump divide? Low-carbon vs. high-carbon America

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Where global trade has the biggest impact on workers

Joseph Parilla and Mark Muro

Wednesday, December 14, 2016