Wages vs prices: the real cost-of-living math
The squeeze is simple arithmetic: pay rises at one speed, rent and groceries rise at another.
Priya Vaithilingam · October 8, 2026News ABC
Why Manufacturing Jobs Pay What They Pay
Manufacturing pay is built on productivity, bargaining power, and scarce skills. See the history and the forces that set factory wages today.
Monica Cummings · October 7, 2026
Inside the Mind of a Manufacturing Engineer
What a manufacturing engineer thinks about all day: turning raw material into finished products efficiently, with the tools, training, and trade-offs the job demands.
Monica Cummings · October 5, 2026
How to Read a Manufacturing Process, Step by Step
Learn to read a manufacturing process step by step, from design and materials to forming, machining, assembly, and the quality checks that keep production under control.
Monica Cummings · October 4, 2026
What manufacturing actually means, in plain English
The word covers everything from hand tools to chip fabs, and the confusion costs job seekers real opportunities.
Owen Blackwood · October 1, 2026
Manufacturing jobs near you: where to look first
Local boards, apprenticeships and resumes built to pass the automated screen.
Monica Cummings · September 21, 2026How to read a plant opening announcement
Announced jobs, subsidy promises and phased timelines are three different things. Treat them that way.
Owen Blackwood · September 19, 2026Metalworks adds 110,000 square feet in Lawrence
A $25 million leased plant doubles down on a Kansas fabrication bet that already beat its jobs plan.
Owen Blackwood · September 17, 2026
Dallas Fed surveys put local pressures on the record
Three Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas releases in three days will show what manufacturers, retailers and energy producers are actually paying and hiring.
Monica Cummings · September 28, 2026Trade
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Trade agreements 101: why ratification is the hard part
Negotiators can settle a deal in years. Getting legislatures in every country to say yes takes longer, and sometimes kills the pact.
Priya Vaithilingam · October 2, 2026
Trade deficits explained: the number isn't what you think
A deficit measures one year of goods flows. It does not measure whether a country is winning, losing, or getting poorer.
Monica Cummings · September 26, 2026
Tariffs explained: who really pays and when
The importer writes the check, but the bill travels down the supply chain to businesses and shoppers.
Priya Vaithilingam · September 24, 2026
What is trade? Goods move, money moves back
Imports, exports, tariffs and trade balances, explained with the everyday goods they show up in.
Priya Vaithilingam · September 23, 2026Politics
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Tariffs top the list at a Pennsylvania manufacturing roundtable
Eight state lawmakers heard one message in Schuylkill County: federal tariffs, energy costs and a worker shortage are squeezing the state's manufacturers.
Khalid Okonkwo · October 2, 2026
Why Some Industries Win Subsidies, Others Don't
Subsidy allocation runs on committee seats, regional votes and which industry shows up with a jobs number attached.
Khalid Okonkwo · September 9, 2026How a Section 232 tariff gets imposed
Khalid Okonkwo · August 11, 2026Industrial policy is now bipartisan default
Subsidies, tariffs, and procurement preferences survived a court ruling and an election cycle — the argument is only over the knobs.
Monica Cummings · August 10, 2026Economy News
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What a recession is, and who declares one
The word gets thrown around constantly. The official call comes from a private research group, months late.
Priya Vaithilingam · September 20, 2026
Small packages lose their tariff exemption
A rule that let low-value imports skip duties for a century is gone, and postal carriers are still adjusting to the paperwork.
Priya Vaithilingam · August 15, 2026How a product gets added to steel tariffs
Priya Vaithilingam · August 13, 2026Steel tariffs sit at 50 percent a year on
Section 232 steel and aluminum duties doubled to 50 percent in June 2025 and still cover imports that fed auto plants, appliances, and construction.
Priya Vaithilingam · August 10, 2026Business News
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Franchising explained: buying in without buying the hype
The fees, the support, and what the disclosure document shows before any money moves.
Monica Cummings · September 29, 2026
Mahama's 'concrete pillars' speech makes one hard promise
The resilience claim is political shorthand. The GH¢2.5 billion annual investment plan is the part with a budget line attached.
Monica Cummings · September 13, 2026How antidumping duties actually get set
A single trade petition triggers two separate federal reviews, and only one of them decides the tariff rate.
Monica Cummings · August 10, 2026A strong dollar squeezes small exporters
The same exchange rate that cheapens import inputs raises the price on every invoice a small manufacturer sends abroad.
Monica Cummings · August 5, 2026