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Commentaries tagged with manufacturing

May 4, 2025	Two Key Economic Lessons in One BillHoosiers face trade-offs and opportunity costs in the wake of SEA1.
April 27, 2025	Time to Fix Economic Development PolicyAllocating tax dollars to land development won’t cause economic growth.
April 20, 2025	The Unanticipated Effects of SB1Businesses, governments and households may all feel the effects.
April 13, 2025	The Stupidest of PoliciesThis whipsawing of tariff rates has unnerved financial markets, which on Wednesday, were toying with a liquidity crisis.
March 30, 2025	The Birth and Death of Rustbelt CitiesEducational attainment is the fundamental factor leading to city growth or decline.
February 9, 2025	The Medicaid DilemmaFor every one new job created in Indiana since 2010, we’ve had more than two new people enroll in Medicaid.
January 19, 2025	My 2025 ForecastThe Hoosier economy is growing, but at the same time falling further behind the rest of the nation.
November 17, 2024	The Degrowth Movement Is Wrong and ImmoralDegrowthers are terribly mistaken in three big ways.
September 15, 2024	IEDC’s Unhappy 20th AnniversaryIndiana must become a place where education and skills of people form the central mission of state and local economic development policies.
April 7, 2024	What Caused the Midwest to Thrive? EducationIndiana was universally literate before England was.
February 11, 2024	Some More Truth About Manufacturing and TradeManufacturing employment peaked decades earlier than manufacturing production.
January 28, 2024	Do Record Levels of Capital Investment Benefit Citizens?Taxpayers may be appropriately skeptical about business relocation announcements.
January 7, 2024	What Does New GDP Data Tell Us About the Hoosier Economy?More than half of all the state’s new residents since 2020 live in one of two counties.
December 10, 2023	Manufacturing Matters, but Not for Creating JobsManufacturing is important because it is the source of a significant share of regional productivity growth.
October 8, 2023	Falling Behind Mississippi Indiana now sends 52.9 percent of high school graduates to college, while Mississippi sends 81 percent.
September 24, 2023	Don’t Expect the UAW to GrowThere is no evidence of a resurgence in the UAW or other industrial unions today.
August 20, 2023	Face the Fact: Factory Jobs Aren’t Coming BackFor every factory job Indiana lost since 1973, other industries created seven more jobs.
July 16, 2023	Job Creation Numbers Are DeceptiveOnly a small percentage of new jobs are due to state and local economic development efforts.
February 12, 2023	What Is Happening to Labor Supply?Wishing to employ someone is not the same as labor demand.
January 8, 2023	Remote Work Is Indiana’s Biggest Opportunity and RiskThere are now more Hoosiers in remote work than there are in manufacturing and logistics combined.
October 2, 2022	Recession Likelihood GrowsIt is too early to predict a recession but not its effects.
July 24, 2022	Why Are Rich Places Growing and Poor Places in Decline?To participate in a new economy, a community’s workforce must possess the ability to absorb new skills that may be vastly different from what they currently know.
June 5, 2022	Mindless Economic Development Strategy?Much of what you see and read about these jobs announcements is raw political fiction.
April 3, 2022	The U.S. Job Creation MachineNo U.S. state, and very few cities, have more ‘global’ jobs than they did in the spring of 1992.
October 24, 2021	Deep Worries About Education and Employment Are Still With UsIndiana will start 2022 with three consecutive years of declining educational attainment of adults.
September 27, 2020	COVID May Amplify Factory Job TrendsFor manufacturing, production continues to grow and employment continues to decline.
January 13, 2019	Factory Jobs Are Changing FastSummary: Productivity and education demands greatly affect factory employment.
January 21, 2018	Carrier Illustrates the Big Economic Shifts of Our TimeMachines eliminate some labor and shift the skill and educational requirements of the surviving jobs.
December 24, 2017	Manufacturing in Growth and TransitionSince 2001, 60 percent of all manufacturing GDP growth has occurred in just 10 cities.
December 10, 2017	A Forecast for 2018Ineffective policy interventions accompanied the Great Recession.
July 23, 2017	Automation, Trade and Urbanization Require More Resilient People and PlacesOur study implies that regional inequality might be poised for a big increase.
January 29, 2017	Trade Deals Won’t Change Manufacturing EmploymentChanges to trade policy won’t have a meaningful effect on manufacturing employment.
December 18, 2016	The Future of Manufacturing Production and JobsManufacturing production is well; manufacturing employment is not.
December 4, 2016	Carrier News About Much More Than TradeCarrier sent a message by timing its jobs announcement during last spring’s heated presidential primaries.
May 8, 2016	The Great Hoosier Jobs Lie of 2016Productivity has lead to a growing manufacturing industry, but fewer, better-educated workers.
March 27, 2016	Technology Both Complements and Substitutes for LaborTechnology has replaced workers in routine, yet costly, occupations.
March 13, 2016	Manufacturing Production, Manufacturing Jobs and Snake-OilAmerican manufacturing production has been booming, while manufacturing employment has been in decline.
February 21, 2016	Some Surprising Lessons from CarrierIt would be wiser to invest in making people more productive.
June 14, 2015	Manufacturing Myths and RealitiesDespite some dips, the manufacturing industry is relatively healthy.
October 19, 2014	Polarized Labor Markets and the Supply and Demand of Unskilled Workers High-skilled and low-skilled workers face very different futures in this economy.
June 16, 2013	Good News on Manufacturing in 2013The most interesting part of our manufacturing research this year was revelations on productivity growth in Indiana.
March 3, 2013	Manufacturing and the FutureThe machinery required for production requires different skills now than what was required in 1970.
March 12, 2012	Manufacturing Is Alive and WellManufacturing came to the Midwest because we had an abundance of the right workers.
February 20, 2012	Markets and GrowthMarkets rule supreme, but they also work imperfectly and will do so as long as humans themselves remain imperfect.
January 17, 2012	What to Expect from Right-to-Work Legislation in Indiana...we should expect no effect on manufacturing, for good or ill, in wages or employment as a consequence of RTW.
June 13, 2011	The Island of Growth and Resurgent ProsperityWe Hoosiers are an economic anomaly, an Island of growth and resurgent prosperity.
February 17, 2007	Tough Love in the Auto Parts Industry "...the biggest actor of them all - the customer - has new options, and is making different choices than before."
December 18, 2006	The Enigma of Indiana Manufacturing"...the rules that once governed success are changing, and companies have no choice but to change with them.."
April 17, 2006	What Does a Diversified Economy Look Like? " There will likely be no large new employers coming to every town, gobbling up workers by the hundreds or thousands, offering lifetime employment for generations the way manufacturing companies once did."
October 14, 2005	The Shoe Falls at Delphi "Reorganization at Delphi also presents new opportunities in the vehicle parts landscape that existing or future Indiana companies may take advantage of."
August 12, 2005	Separating Job Growth Fact from Fiction v"There are more oddball, inexplicable, and exaggerated movements in employment, hours, and earnings data for the month of July than at any time of the year."
January 7, 2005	Job Growth Sure Beats the Alternative "...the recovery from the 2001 recession has left us plenty of unpaid bills, especially in the public sector."
November 5, 2004	Indiana Manufacturing in Perspective "Is the Indiana manufacturing economy in decline? That depends on how you keep score."
September 24, 2004	The Myth of Manufacturing Jobs "We have been accustomed to think of manufacturing as the driver of wealth creation in our communities and regions for so long that it is hard to think of anything else taking its place."
September 17, 2004	Plugging Into the Growth of China "China’s emergence as a world manufacturing center has presented a formidable challenge to other production-oriented economies, including the economy of Indiana."
August 20, 2004	Talking Back to Your Television "We’ve evolved over the last two decades into an economy that is increasingly focused on the delivery of services instead of goods"
July 23, 2004	A Closer Look at Manufacturing "... manufacturing industries have not been a contributor to employment growth in more than a generation."
June 18, 2004	Industrial Economy on a Roll "The down and up cycle of the manufacturing economy nationwide since 2000 fits Indiana’s recession experience like a glove, with good reason."
May 30, 2003	The Manufacturing Economy is Hurting "Production-related jobs lost to technological change or global competition will not come back, at least in the same form, when demand starts to rise again."
January 17, 2003	In Search of a Silver Lining "It's been a gruesome quarter for the manufacturing economy."
December 27, 2002	Crunch Time for Manufacturing Economy "After an impressive rebound from its recession low point of December 2001, factory output nationwide has slipped and stumbled since mid-summer."
October 18, 2002	Economy Hitting Indiana Where It Hurts "A contraction in factory output spells trouble for the Indiana economy, the most manufacturing-intensive in the nation."
September 20, 2002	Manufacturing Economy Takes a Breather "Even with the August weakness, the performance of manufacturing thus far in 2002 has to be considered heartening."
August 16, 2002	Manufacturing Limps Into July "... a new spark is clearly needed before we can have any confidence that the trough of this cycle has been passed."
April 12, 2002	Probing the Complexities of Indiana Manufacturing "The sluggish performance of Indiana manufacturing, in a year that saw the second-highest production total in motor vehicle industry history, has taught us that we've got to do a lot more than simply 'move the metal' to prosper as an economy."
May 18, 2001	Manufacturing's Slide Continues "The decline in the U.S. manufacturing economy has not yet hit bottom, according to reports on April industrial activity released by the Federal Reserve."
January 19, 2001	Manufacturing Economy Takes a Hit "In the changing winds blowing through the national economy, the sector of the economy with its chin stuck out the farthest is manufacturing."

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