The Manufacturing Report

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 what folks in Lone Star think about the job President Trump has done to help manufacturing workers so far.

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 America promises.

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 and our overall economy — and what policies are needed to create more of them.

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 Foreign Relations, talks with host Scott Paul about how America's trade policies have both helped and hurt Americans, and what we might expect from the Trump administration.

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 charged with helping Trump implement his trade agenda. On this episode of The Manufacturing Report, host Scott Paul and Scott Boos, senior VP of Government Affairs and Policy at the Alliance for American Manufacturing, discuss what we can expect from Lighthizer and the Trump trade team.

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.

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 actually think of the job he's done so far — and what would they like to see from Trump moving forward? AAM's Elizabeth Brotherton-Bunch joins host Scott Paul to discuss.

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 were in manufacturing. Closing the trade deficit is the first step in creating new U.S. factory jobs, Scott argues.

Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul chats with Adams Nager, economic policy analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, about automation and its impact on manufacturing. In a new report, Nager destroys the myth that robots are taking factory jobs — and argues that trade and faltering U.S. competitiveness is actually to blame.

In the debut episode of The Manufacturing Report, Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul looks at the importance of Buy America preferences. He also analyzes what's happening in the trade debate.