Changing Gears

An abandoned building can be a potent symbol of a depressed area or a bad economy. Ruin porn has been decried and criticized as unhelpful voyeurism, but…

Here are four very bad words you hear a lot these days:There. Are. No. Jobs.But it turns out, that’s not entirely true.Yes, the manufacturing sector lost…

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Auto workers at the Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant make some of General Motors’ most popular vehicles.The GMC Acadia,…

There may be no joy in Boston or Atlanta, but there is plenty among baseball fans in the Great Lakes.The Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Brewers are headed…

*Editors note - This story by Kate Davidson of Changing Gears was first broadcast last year (September 22, 2010). Now that GM and the UAW have agreed to a…

Navistar builds trucks across North America, at non-union factories in the South and Mexico, as well as union shops in the Midwest. The UAW members at the…

As the election season begins, it almost seems politicians are obligated to tout small business as one way to stave off further economic collapse and…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-1002539.mp3Imagine going home out at night while your computer keeps doing…

Depending on who you ask, American manufacturing is either the way out of our bad economy, or it’s dead.Whatever you think, there’s no denying that…

What’s different about our factories? How are things changing in the Midwest, from the way people are trained to what’s being produced?This month,…