Manufacturing

Buffalo, New York / USA - September 07 2020: Almost empty Main Street in Downtown Buffalo, NY during the Labor Day Weekend 2020

Designing a collaborative fund for underserved entrepreneurs: Lessons from Western New York’s Open4 program

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Can the Biden administration improve the manufacturing sector?

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

U.S. President Joe Biden hands a pen to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, as he signs an executive order on "promoting competition in the American economy" as members of his Cabinet standby in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington U.S., July 9, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

President Biden’s right to repair order needs strengthening to aid consumers

James Seddon and Darrell M. West

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Illustration photo shows various medicine pills in their original packaging in Brussels, Belgium August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Illustration

Time to make essential medicines within the United States

Darrell M. West

Monday, June 14, 2021

Rebuilding the US medical supply chain

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

Semiconductor chip

What’s behind the semiconductor shortage and how long could it last?

David Dollar and Don Clark

Monday, May 24, 2021

Robotic arms in a factory.

Robot census: Gathering data to improve policymaking on new technologies

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Manufacturing plant

A people-centered approach to improving job quality in Chicago

Reniya Dinkins and Gabriel Morrison

July 23, 2020

Reshoring Strategy

Reshoring advanced manufacturing supply chains to generate good jobs

Andrew Fish and Honora Spillane

July 23, 2020

Preserving manufacturing in the COVID-19 economy

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Employees of Hamilton Medical AG test ventilators at a plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

To save America, it’s time to activate the great arsenal of democracy

William A. Galston

Friday, March 20, 2020

An Amtrak train attendant walks across the tracks at the Holdrege station after exiting the 5 California Zephyr Amtrak train in Holdrege, Nebraska June 13, 2008. U.S. government-owned passenger rail company Amtrak wields improper and coercive regulatory power over private freight carriers under a law that lets it help set rules that competing railroads must follow, a federal appeals court ruled on April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Lott/File Photo

COVID-19 is hurting many industries and workers, but could it help trade and logistics?

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Metro Monitor

Metro Monitor 2020: Prosperity is increasing in America’s largest metro areas, but not for everyone

March 5, 2020

Cover: Growth in a Time of Change

Growth in a Time of Change

Edited by Hyeon-Wook Kim and Zia Qureshi

2020

Kansas City

The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America

Robert D. Atkinson, Mark Muro, and Jacob Whiton

December 9, 2019

A line worker installs the back seats on the flex line at Nissan Motor Co's automobile manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S., August 23, 2018. Picture taken August 23, 2018. REUTERS/William DeShazer - RC1B6E2ACF40

Highlights: How public attitudes are shaping the future of manufacturing

Anagha Komaragiri and Louis Serino

Friday, August 2, 2019

Public attitudes on US manufacturing

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

A technician inspects newly moulded bottles at the Guinness pop-up plant in Accra, July 2, 2014. Picture taken July 2, 2014. To match Insight CONSUMERS-MANUFACTURERS/AFRICA REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko (GHANA - Tags: BUSINESS) - GM1EA7411EN01

What do automation and artificial intelligence mean for Africa?

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Heavy machinery and the American flag are seen before the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump as he participates in the Foxconn Technology Group groundbreaking ceremony for its LCD manufacturing campus, in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, U.S., June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Darren Hauck TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC175D6CD2E0

Brookings survey finds 58% see manufacturing as vital to US economy, but only 17% are very confident in its future

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

How the Small Businesses Investment Company Program can better support America’s advanced industries

Wednesday, June 26, 2019