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A plea to presidential candidates: stop talking about bringing manufacturing jobs back from China, in fact, talk a lot less about manufacturing, period.

Growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector showed no month-over-month change during September, staying at August's sluggish pace which was the weakest in almost two years.

Federal Reserve said Monday that industrial production dropped unexpectedly in May and hasn’t increased since Nov.'14.

The fate of American manufacturing is back in the headlines, thanks to the bipartisan slugfest going on over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the massive trade deal that has become a source of conflict between President Obama and Democrats in Congress.

The debate on U.S. manufacturing should not be informed by anecdotal evidence, promotional consulting reports, or reports from think tanks with an agenda of keeping bad news from dampening support for further global integration.

A new report by the ITIF, assesses the true status of the American manufacturing economy and argues pundits have overestimated the impact of isolated incidents of reshored production and misread or ignored the data.

This paper reports on a recent survey of over 6000 American manufacturing and service sector firms on the extent to which innovators rely upon external sources of invention.

Why are other countries investing in commercially oriented industrial R&D fields while the United States does not? There are two key reasons.

Insights from a new National Bureau of Economic Research study on innovation in manufacturing.