A Trip to Lone Star, a Small Texas Town Hurt by Unfair Global Trade
Durwin "Oodie" Royal is the president of the United Steelworkers Local 4134 in Lone Star, Texas. He talks to host Scott Paul about how dumped steel imports have devastated the community — and shares w...
17 Apr 20177min
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) on Buy America, NAFTA, and President Trump
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) talks about the fight to strengthen Buy America preferences — including against Russian steel importers — and how she plans to hold President Trump accountable on his Buy A...
10 Apr 201714min
Rep. Pete Visclosky on What's Needed to Create Good-Paying Jobs
Indiana Rep. Pete Visclosky, the vice chairman of the Congressional Steel Caucus and a champion for the working class, talks to Scott Paul about how vital manufacturing jobs are to the middle class an...
3 Apr 20177min
A Conversation with Edward Alden
In his book "Failure to Adjust," Edward Alden looks at what's been going right — and wrong — for American workers in the global economy. Alden, the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on ...
27 Mars 201713min
How President Trump's Pick for U.S. Trade Representative Could Change the Trade Game
President Trump won the presidency, at least in part, because of his messaging on trade. Robert Lighthizer, Trump's pick for U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), is likely to be among the officials charg...
20 Mars 201712min
Citizen Activists on Trump, Manufacturing and Made in America
Host Scott Paul chats with AAM's field coordinators, most of whom are former factory workers themselves, about how people are reacting to Donald Trump's election in their home states.
13 Mars 201711min
How Do Manufacturing Workers Grade President Trump's Performance So Far?
President Trump talks a big game when it comes to creating manufacturing jobs. But what do factory workers in industrial states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia and Texas act...
6 Mars 201711min
The Manufacturing Report: Economist Rob Scott on why 3.4 million jobs were lost to China.
Rob Scott from the Economic Policy Institute joins Scott Paul to talk about how lopsided trade with China led to the loss of 3.4 million jobs between 2001 and 2015. Nearly three-fourths of these jobs...
27 Feb 201711min
