American Steel

As Katrina and Avik noted this morning, there's a lot more to the story of GST Steel's 2001 bankruptcy, under the management of Bain Capital, the subject of a new Obama attack ad. Read More

x00a0; New report finds the American steel industry supported more than one million jobs in the U.S. economy in 2011; each job in U.S. steel industry supports seven jobs in the U.S. economy WASHINGTON , March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A just-released report by Timothy J. Considine , professor of energy economics, University of Wyoming , reveals that the American steel industry is playing a significant role in leading manufacturing's post-recession resurgence primarily because it is highly interrelated with many other sectors of the economy. Read More

Pete Visclosky (ID., Ind.) and Timothy Murphy (R., Pa.), co-chairmen of the Congressional Steel Caucus. Read More