Deindustrialization has become a global challenge related to governance, and linked to social unrest and economic chaos in parts of the world. Over the past two to three decades, almost all developed ...

Deindustrialization, “the hollowing out of manufacturing in America,” you always hear, began in earnest with President Reagan in the 1980s. In the 1950s and all that decade represented, the United ...

The only domestic manufacturing Trump's tariffs have boosted is the production of lies about a growing economy. The jobs data tells the truth.

Almost two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, the great observer of American democracy, argued that two nations of the world—Russia and America—were starting at different points but progressing ...

When the chemical factories shuttered, leaving the Love Canal disaster and environmental degradation behind, the iconic city of Niagara Falls tried to find ways to recover. To stem massive population ...

The economies of the United States and other rich countries — Japan, France, Canada, Switzerland — are often characterized as "post-industrial," meaning they’re developed to the point that most of ...

It is an old-standing diagnosis: ever since the late 1970s, the industrial production of goods in affluent countries has been regarded as a discontinued model. According to strong versions of the ...

This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. Every four years, the white working class gets a fresh round of attention from candidates and the media. At campaign stops in Rust Belt cities, ...

I was sitting under a sheltering fir on a bench I made years ago of recycled wood at the edge of a 70-acre wildflower-filled meadow. Thunderheads formed over the 6500′ peaks of Washington’s ancient ...

It has been more than a month since Freddie Gray was killed in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department. The 25-year-old man’s death set off a wave of protests and isolated rioting as residents ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw ...