The US Department of Commerce Census Bureau has released the few in a series of several hundred reports on individual industries in the manufacturing sector from the 1997 Economic Census. The 1997 Economic Census series on the Commercial Laundry, Drycleaning, and Pressing Machine Manufacturing does not include state comparisons but reports on total capital expenditures in Illinois as well as the...

Many older industrial cities in the American Northeast continue to ask the question: "What's next?" Will they reboot their local economies by creating arts and culture districts? Will they hope to become start-up hubs? Or perhaps they can attract new knowledge economy workers? This 60-page paper by the Brookings Institution's Nisha Mistry (supported by Jennifer S. Vey and Richard Shearer) looks at...

The US Department of Commerce Census Bureau has released the few in a series of several hundred reports on individual industries in the manufacturing sector from the 1997 Economic Census. According to the 1997 Economic Census Manufacturing, Industry Series on Tortilla Manufacturing, over half of all US tortilla manufacturers are located in Texas and California.