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U.S. Steel lays off Michigan workers a week after Trump bragged ‘business is thriving’

Just last week, Donald Trump was bragging about the success of his steel tariffs. This week, U.S. Steel is laying off workers in Michigan—temporarily, but for as long as six months. “Steel was dead. Your business was dead. Okay? I don’t want to be overly crude. Your business was dead. And I put a little thing called ‘a 25 …

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Don’t Dawdle on Economic and National Security

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The future of the American steel and aluminum industries is not a matter for dithering. Each mill and smelter that remains operating is too vital. Each is too crucial to the economic viability of a corporation, a community, and thousands of workers and their families. Each also is too essential to national security, which relies …

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When Too Much is Terrible

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It’s lights out in Lorain on March 31. The town’s steel mill, site of a new electric arc furnace and $120 million investment, had given 1,200 Ohioans good middle-class jobs this time last year. But by April, a relentless avalanche of underpriced Chinese steel will have shoved all but a fewof those workers into the …

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The Lesson of Pittsburgh for G-20: Manufacturing Matters

Leave a Comment / Green jobs, manufacturing / By max cyril

The revival of Pittsburgh, site of the G-20 summit this week, can provide valuable lessons for the world’s leaders. Among them: Manufacturing matters and poor trade policies hurt everyone. “Pittsburgh, G-20 and the New Economy: Lessons to Learn, Choices to Make,” a report released today by the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), makes clear that …

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U.S. Steel lays off Michigan workers a week after Trump bragged ‘business is thriving’

Don’t Dawdle on Economic and National Security

When Too Much is Terrible

The Lesson of Pittsburgh for G-20: Manufacturing Matters

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