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The Factories Were Going to Roar Back
Read more . . . →Trump said the factories would come roaring back. He said it a lot — roaring back, coming back, bigger than ever. Seventy-two thousand manufacturing jobs gone since Liberation Day, and the Whirlpool plant in Iowa runs with 1,300 workers now. It had 3,000. The rest are in Mexico. That’s the part nobody’s saying straight: the tariffs were supposed to stop companies from offshoring. Whirlpool heard that, did the math, and offshored anyway. John Deere took $300 million in tariff costs and handed out layoff notices in Illinois and Iowa. Because that’s how it works — the tariff hits the company...
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Roaring back: 98,000 manufacturing jobs gone since the tariffs hit
Read more . . . →The promise was simple: slap tariffs on everything, factories come back, workers win. Trump said it enough times it started to sound like gravity. Twelve months in, the U.S. has shed 98,000 manufacturing jobs. Not some. Ninety-eight thousand. Since April’s tariff escalation alone, 72,000 more. The factories aren’t roaring back. The workers are just gone. He just announced 25% tariffs on EU cars and trucks. More factories coming, supposedly. Except supply chain managers surveyed by CNBC are now reporting double the layoffs compared to last year — 32% reporting job cuts, up from 16% in April. The tariffs didn’t bring...
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Whirlpool Begged for the Tariffs. It's Still Shipping Jobs to Mexico.
Read more . . . →Whirlpool wrote the tariff playbook. The company lobbied Washington for appliance duties, praised them at every press event, and publicly backed Trump’s “Liberation Day” schedule because — on paper — it was supposed to kneecap LG and Samsung. Turns out the America First poster child just laid off 341 workers at its Amana, Iowa plant this spring, a plant that had 3,000 people in it five years ago. Union reps say it could be down to 500 by year’s end. Where’s the work going? Mexico. Whirlpool poured over a billion dollars into Mexican facilities and tripled its workforce south of...
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