
$15 Minimum Wage Threatens 5.3 Million US Manufacturing Jobs
It’s a standard part of the current public policy discourse that raising the minimum wage won’t have much, if indeed any, effect on the number of jobs available to Americans to do. It’s easy enough to show that most of those earning the…

What’s So Great About Manufacturing?
Democrats and Republicans disagree on a lot, but leaders of both parties are as keen now as they were decades ago to embrace manufacturing jobs.
G.O.P. Presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, have spoken of a “renaissance”…

Economy Picking Up Steam. Most Americans Not Feeling It
The U.S. economy is picking up steam but most Americans aren’t feeling it. By contrast, most European economies are still in bad shape, but most Europeans are doing relatively well.
What’s behind this? Two big facts.
First,…