The EPA's Clean Power Plan creates winners and losers, with anticipated advantages for the environment but higher electricity costs and lower GDP relative to baseline forecasts. Two dozen states have already filed lawsuits over the plan and the House passed two joint resolutions to kill it.

Following is an analysis from Daniel J. Meckstroth, Ph.D., vice president and chief economist at the MAPI Foundation, the research affiliate of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, regarding the December 2015 Institute for Supply Management report.  

This list of our most viewed research last year speaks to the wide range of subjects monitored by our experts.

U.S. exports of manufactures in November were $92 billion, down 5% from November 2014, while imports were $150 billion, or up by 4% from 2014.  

If there was ever a week that spotlighted the power of the U.S. consumer as an economic force, it was this first one of 2016. While the growth of U.S.

The United States is a partner country for the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology.

Recent shifts in technologies, demographics, and markets have created a new normal for manufacturers.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a significant decision interpreting the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The court decided on an issue of first impression that job applicants may bring disparate impact claims of age discrimination under the ADEA against prospective employers whose policies and procedures lack a discriminatory intent and are purportedly neutral on their face, but nevertheless have a discriminatory effect.

The manufacturing world is being shaped by technological, demographic, and market megatrends and how companies respond will define their future performance.