"The fight for American manufacturing is the fight for America's future", President Obama has declared—one that will require a fundamentally different economic strategy for ensuring a sustained, widely shared prosperity. The "Making it in America" project exists to foster a broad public debate about this strategy, with an emphasis on reviving manufacturing as a key element of the new economy.
Doubling Exports by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | February 9, 2010
The Worst of the Pain by Bob Herbert, The New York Times | February 9, 2010
Where Deficits Are Going To Come From Next by Natasha Chart, OurFuture.org | February 5, 2010
Senator Shelby's "Holds" Show Need For National Industrial Policy by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | February 5, 2010
Hey, I Know, Let's Sell Some Stuff! by Natasha Chart, OurFuture.org | February 5, 2010
A Song About Trade by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | February 4, 2010
The Hidden Issue of 2010 by E.J. Dionne, Truthout | February 4, 2010
Time For The Senate To Act On Jobs by Robert Borosage , OurFuture.org | February 4, 2010
Just This One Conservative Failure Cost 1.4 Million Jobs by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | February 3, 2010
Bwahahaha, Or, The Disneyland-Vegas Express by Natasha Chart, OurFuture.org | February 3, 2010
Europeans Revitalize Plants to Save Jobs , The New York Times | February 5, 2010
$1.4 Billion Oregon Wind Deal Announced, greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com | December 10, 2009
Obama Job Creation Package DETAILS: See The President's Key Proposals, Huffington Post | December 10, 2009
Senators seek probe into China's yuan peg, Reuters | November 23, 2009
White House Hopes Trade Can Bolster Labor Market, blogs.wsj.com | November 9, 2009
World Bank Chief Economist: China Should Leave its Currency Alone, blogs.wsj.com | November 9, 2009
ISM and Employment: Manufacturing Gives, Service Takes Away, calculatedriskblog.com | November 4, 2009
Wind Farm in Texas Creates 2000 Jobs in China, but Only 300 in the U.S. , The New York Times | November 2, 2009
Fed Chief Cites Trade Imbalances’ Role in Crisis , The New York Times | October 19, 2009
In Dollar’s Fall, Upside for U.S. Exports , The New York Times | October 19, 2009
Arguably the single most farcical aspect of America's political discourse is listening to congressional Republicans talk about economic policy. We're talking about a group of people who've managed to be spectacularly wrong about practically every economic challenge in recent memory, but who are nevertheless convinced of their own self-righteous expertise. It's hard not to cringe. But yet, they keep talking, blissfully unaware of their track record of uninterrupted failure.
American competitiveness is severely hobbled by our "free market" and anti-government attitudes. Other countries have national economic/industrial strategies and we don't.
China Trip Verdict: Obama Was Schooled
OUR TAKE
Eric Lotke: "While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall and talked about a relationship 'at an all-time high,' China continues to take our lunch money." Read more »
Scott Paul: "I'm completely underwhelmed with the results of the president's trip, especially with so much at stake." Read more »
AUDIO: The chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Carolyn Bartholomew, and the president of the Economic Strategy Institute, Clyde Prestowitz, discuss the economic impact of Obama's trip and the policies we should push for. Listen »
Read our series on Obama's China Challenge »
The Chinese-backed firm that was posed to get U.S. stimulus dollars to support Chinese wind turbine manufacturing has promised to build a U.S. plant.
Read our progress letter | Read our posts on the issue »
Our Making It In America project champions the revival of manufacturing as essential to rebuilding the economy.
TAKE ACTION A Chinese company stands to produce 2,000 manufacturing jobs in China with the aid of American Recover Act funds? Tell the Energy Department you want stimulus money to fund green energy projects that create American jobs.
» Send a message to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
GET THE BACKGROUND on our "Create American Jobs" page.
ERIC LOTKE ON THE LATEST JOBS NUMBERS: The solution to 10.2 percent unemployment leaps out from the government data: “During this downturn we can rebuild a productive economy for the future.”
» Read: “New Unemployment, Old Solutions” | “Green Shoots: For Whom?”
In 2009 you helped us wage critical battles for America's future. Those fights will intensify in 2010, but we can win them with your continued support. Please put the Campaign and Institute for America's Future on your year-end gift list »
Manufacture Or Borrow (Until We Can't), by Dave Johnson, OurFuture.org | August 6, 2009
Just One Word: Factories, by Harold Meyerson, The Washington Post | August 12, 2009
Hard Labor, by Mike Elk, OurFuture.org | September 8, 2009
Ron Bloom Named US Manufacturing Czar,The Washington Post | September 8, 2009
Why Auto Parts?, by Marcy Wheeler, OurFuture.org | September 14, 2009
Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge, by Robert Borosage , OurFuture.org | November 12, 2009
Making It In America, by Robert Borosage , OurFuture.org | July 22, 2009
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