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Byline: Eduardo Porter GRUNDY, Va. - Jay Rife surveys the landscape - hundreds of flat, grassy acres reclaimed from a spent mountaintop mine once operated by the Paramont Coal Company. [...]

A new report documents the concentration of cutting-edge industries in a few coastal areas and why lawmakers ought to be alarmed. There are about a dozen industries at the frontier [...]

Arkansas reaped a windfall when a Walmart founder, James L. Walton, known as Bud, died in 1995 with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.65 billion in today's money. The [...]

DUNWOODY, Ga. -- Aisha Adkins would rather have her own place, instead of living with her parents. She would also like a job, a car, a master's degree and savings. [...]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Within sight of a couple of huge brick smokestacks, looming witnesses to a past built on tobacco and powered by coal, there is something weirdly out of [...]

Ross Perot, who died Tuesday, has not been much in the news in the past few years. But his ideas surely have. His staunch opposition to the North American Free [...]

Who knew getting old would be this painful? The median age of the American worker is 42, four years more than the median 20 years ago. Americans are used to [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and Guilbert Gates Last month the Census Bureau confirmed a confounding dynamic taking hold across the American landscape: Superstar cities, the nation's economic powerhouses, hotbeds of opportunity [...]

Last month the Census Bureau confirmed a confounding dynamic taking hold across the American landscape: Superstar cities, the nation's economic powerhouses, hotbeds of opportunity at the cutting edge of technological [...]

You dropped out of college, or decided straight out of high school that college was not your thing. Here's some advice if you are looking for a job: Stay out [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter It takes Carlos Rojas two and a half to three hours to drive from his home in Stockton, Calif., to a job spreading plaster on houses going [...]

It takes Carlos Rojas two and a half to three hours to drive from his home in Stockton, Calif., to a job spreading plaster on houses going up in Campbell, [...]

When Bill Gates floated the idea of imposing a tax on robots a couple of years ago, Lawrence Summers, a former top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, called the [...]

PHOENIX -- It's hard to miss the dogged technological ambition pervading this sprawling desert metropolis.There's Intel's $7 billion, seven-nanometer chip plant going up in Chandler. In Scottsdale, Axon, the maker [...]

HARLAN, Ky. -- Gov. Matt Bevin skillfully worked the room at the old courthouse building here in Harlan, one more town-hall meeting in the long campaign toward next year's election. [...]

Can rural America be saved?There are 60 million people, almost one in five Americans, living on farms, in hamlets and in small towns across the landscape. For the last quarter [...]

President Trump may have been overstating things when he argued from a United Nations podium last week that the Chinese were going after American farm products to hurt his political [...]

The bosses haven't yet introduced facial recognition technology at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. But from her perch behind the front desk at the pink neo-Moorish palace overlooking Waikiki Beach, Jean [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Martha Bonilla is not your typical middle-class worker. And it's not just that she was born in a backwater of El Salvador and crossed Mexico hidden among [...]

Martha Bonilla is not your typical middle-class worker. And it's not just that she was born in a backwater of El Salvador and crossed Mexico hidden among a pile of [...]

Immigration is reshaping societies around the globe. Barriers erected by wealthier nations have been unable to keep out those from the global south -- typically poor, and often desperate -- [...]

When I wrote my first Economic Scene column six years ago, the unemployment rate languished at 8.2 percent as the job market painfully recovered from the jolt of the Great [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER When I wrote my first Economic Scene column six years ago, the unemployment rate languished at 8.2 percent as the job market painfully recovered from the jolt [...]

In 1985, the pollster Stanley Greenberg went to Macomb County, Mich., to figure out how a traditionally Democratic suburban area could have delivered a landslide for Ronald Reagan. Last year, [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER In 1985, the pollster Stanley Greenberg went to Macomb County, Mich., to figure out how a traditionally Democratic suburban area could have delivered a landslide for Ronald [...]

There's something almost eerie about the unwavering nature of the Republican system of belief. The nationalists who propelled President Trump into office may appear locked in an existential battle with [...]

On its face, Wisconsin's development policy looks somewhat unhinged. The $3 billion it offered to attract Foxconn's $10 billion flat-screen-television plant to Racine, near the state's southeastern tip, is an [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER On its face, Wisconsin's development policy looks somewhat unhinged. The $3 billion it offered to attract Foxconn's $10 billion flat-screen-television plant to Racine, near the state's southeastern [...]

St. Cloud, Minn., might look at first blush like one of America's all-too-familiar ailing industrial cities, struggling to hang on to jobs as its companies skip town. Electrolux's planned closing [...]

Was Mark Zuckerberg pulling their leg? As Facebook's co-founder and chief executive parried questions from members of Congress about how the social network would protect its users' privacy, he returned [...]

One of the most telling moments in the spectacle of Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony last week was when Representative Billy Long, a Missouri Republican, warned the co-founder of Facebook of [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER One of the most telling moments in the spectacle of Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony last week was when Representative Billy Long, a Missouri Republican, warned the co-founder [...]

CP Industries just got an expensive lesson in the unintended consequences of protectionism. Based in McKeesport, Pa., the company makes seamless vessels to store gases at high pressure -- steel [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER CP Industries just got an expensive lesson in the unintended consequences of protectionism. Based in McKeesport, Pa., the company makes seamless vessels to store gases at high [...]

Corporate philanthropy, business leaders would have us believe, is the ringing voice of a company's social conscience. Exxon Mobil may stand accused of misleading investors and shareholders about what it [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Corporate philanthropy, business leaders would have us believe, is the ringing voice of a company's social conscience. Exxon Mobil may stand accused of misleading investors and shareholders [...]

Since the days of the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, American policy has aimed to steer China out of its isolation to prosper in the global market economy. There [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Since the days of the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, American policy has aimed to steer China out of its isolation to prosper in the global [...]

Tupelo fell hard for Donald Trump. The blue-collar enclave in northeastern Mississippi -- birthplace of Elvis Presley and the American Family Association -- was once home to a vibrant business [...]

Here's a little known fact: One of the reasons the Ford F-Series pickup acquired its perch at the very top of the sales ranks of cars and trucks in the [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Here's a little known fact: One of the reasons the Ford F-Series pickup acquired its perch at the very top of the sales ranks of cars and [...]

Should Facebook pay us for our puppy pictures? Of course, the idea sounds crazy. Posting puppies on Facebook is not a chore. We love it: Facebook's 1.4 billion daily users [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER Should Facebook pay us for our puppy pictures? Of course, the idea sounds crazy. Posting puppies on Facebook is not a chore. We love it: Facebook's 1.4 [...]

How low must unemployment go for workers to get a raise? A couple of decades ago, it was normal for workers to get regular pay increases. After declining mercilessly since [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER How low must unemployment go for workers to get a raise? A couple of decades ago, it was normal for workers to get regular pay increases. After [...]

What will President Trump's first recession look like? The question is not that far-fetched. The current economic expansion is already the third longest since the middle of the 19th century, [...]

Byline: EDUARDO PORTER What will President Trump's first recession look like? The question is not that far-fetched. The current economic expansion is already the third longest since the middle of [...]