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Tariffs don’t have to be a threat to business — just ask the citizens of ‘Jobsville, USA’

The Hill 22 Mar 2025
Most of my friends’ parents were laid off or underemployed. Everyone, no matter their socioeconomic status, struggled ... economy is doing, look at Elkhart. Like similar Rust Belt communities, Elkhart’s economy is in a constant state of boom or bust ... ....
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Trump remains cold to tariffs deal after Wall Street tantrum: sources

New York Post 22 Mar 2025
The idea emerged during last week’s sharp market selloff ... He’s full steam ahead in imposing tariffs on major trading partners, which he thinks will do everything from plugging the budget deficit to reviving the rust belt manufacturing ... ....
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Inside Trump's economic plan: A massive transfer of wealth

Alternet 20 Mar 2025
treasury that the U.S ... In other words. The U.S ... government ... These retaliatory tariffs will hurt America’s Farm Belt — mostly Republican states and Trump voters ... Europe is also slapping tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, made in America’s Rust Belt.
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We’ll miss globalism when it’s gone

Vox 19 Mar 2025
Bush and Bono. ... So has McCaul ... Clinton’s eventual loss due to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania led to a folk understanding among professional Democrats that not passing protectionist measures to help Rust Belt states would be electoral suicide ... .
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Reigning rugby national champions dominate in season opener

The Brown Daily Herald 19 Mar 2025
This weekend, the Brown Women’s rugby team began their spring season campaign as the reigning national rugby 7’s champions ... ADVERTISEMENT ... With one game under their belt, and the rust of an off-season dusted off, the Bears returned to their old rhythm.
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Trump shrugs off stock market slump, but economic warning signs loom

Beijing News 17 Mar 2025
"That doesn't just happen!" ... This has cost American jobs. The "rust belt" states of the north-eastern and mid-western US have experienced a decline in manufacturing employment over the past 40 years, which is evidence of this ... .
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Trump’s tariffs will be paid by the poor – while his tax cuts help the rich

The Observer 16 Mar 2025
It will be a giant upward transfer of wealth ... Walmart does ... These retaliatory tariffs will hurt America’s farm belt – mostly Republican states and Trump voters ... Europe is also slapping tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, made in America’s rust belt.
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'Powerful motivator': Sociologist explains ways 'fear-based messaging' keeps GOP in power

Alternet 15 Mar 2025
Nonetheless, the 2024 election results — including the fact that Trump carried key Rust Belt states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — remain a major source of frustration for Democrats. And for Democratic strategists, a nagging question is ... .
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Emerging from 2024 loss, Tim Walz holds a town hall in an Iowa Republican’s district

Chicago Tribune 15 Mar 2025
The focus on Midwest neighbors and states in the Rust Belt isn’t a coincidence — many of them are places Walz didn’t visit during last year’s shortened campaign after Biden dropped out and made way ...
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Ireland gets sucked deeper into messy Trump trade war

RTE 15 Mar 2025
He travelled through the disintegrating Rust Belt and encountered disillusioned people who felt left behind after the industries, which once defined their cities, collapsed never to be replaced ... It is protectionism and may not work ... .
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Emerging from 2024 loss, Tim Walz holds a town hall in an Iowa Republican's district

Springfield News-Sun 15 Mar 2025
The focus on Midwest neighbors and states in the Rust Belt isn’t a coincidence — many of them are places Walz didn’t visit during last year’s shortened campaign after Biden dropped out and made way ...
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'Worried' Michigan swing voters now regret supporting 'erratic' Trump: He’s 'acting like a dictator'

Alternet 14 Mar 2025
Nonetheless, Trump's performance in the Rust Belt is a source of major frustration for Democrats, as Trump flipped Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — three of the states that former President Joe Biden carried in 2020 ... READ MORE ... "Driving the news.
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The more Trump reveals himself, the stronger the voter backlash against him grows

Alternet 14 Mar 2025
It seems as if the horrendous Trump news doesn’t end — and it doesn’t ... 1 ... This is already beginning to hurt the Farm Belt — mostly Republican states and Trump voters ... Europe is also slapping tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles, made in the Rust Belt.
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ALEX BRUMMER: These tariffs couldn't have come at a worse time for Britain's ailing steel ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
Trump is using tariffs as a political weapon that is designed to return manufacturing and jobs to America's declining 'rust belt', a core constituency for the President.
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Former Trade Rep Schwab: US shouldn’t have a trade policy that jeopardizes its competitiveness

Cryptopolitan 13 Mar 2025
Former US Trade Representative Susan Schwab talks tariffs on CNBC’s Squawk Box ... remarked. What America needs from the USMCA debate ... CNBC asked whether bringing manufacturing back to the US would help revive jobs in industrial regions like the Rust Belt.
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