Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boeing defense plant workers strike outside of a Boeing facility on Aug. 5, 2025, in Berkeley, Missouri. The transportation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on U.S. manufacturing jobs, as leaders in the ...

President Trump has been upending the global economy in the name of bringing manufacturing back. President Joe Biden signed into law massive investments aimed at doing something similar. The American ...

Gen Zers are steadily abandoning the college-to-corporate pipeline, opting for trade school and blue-collar jobs instead. They’re suiting up as electricians, plumbers, and carpenters for six-figure ...

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 ...

We at the Planet Money newsletter have been looking into what makes manufacturing special. Last week, we looked at economics research that shows that manufacturing jobs continue to pay a higher ...

Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry. Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, ...

My 19-year-old nephew Evan Craig has always had a big personality. He’s voluble and super-charming. So I always thought he’d be successful in business. This summer, after completing his first year at ...