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babylonsister

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Wed Sep 11, 2019, 06:38 AM Sep 2019

Trump's Trade War Has Killed 300K Jobs

https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/10/trumps-trade-war-has-killed-300k-jobs/

Trump’s Trade War Has Killed 300K Jobs
September 10, 2019 at 8:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


Yahoo News: “Forecasting firm Moody’s Analytics estimates that Trump’s trade war with China has already reduced U.S. employment by 300,000 jobs, compared with likely employment levels absent the trade war.”

“That’s a combination of jobs eliminated by firms struggling with tariffs and other elements of the trade war, and jobs that would have been created but haven’t because of reduced economic activity.”
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Trump's Trade War Has Killed 300K Jobs (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2019 OP
K & R. Thanks. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2019 #1
NYT: Estd. cost per household in 2019: Poor $340, rich $970. Hortensis Sep 2019 #2

Hortensis

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2. NYT: Estd. cost per household in 2019: Poor $340, rich $970.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:29 AM
Sep 2019

Since we're waging economic war on China, and other affected nations, we should probably wonder just how much harm we're causing innocent people there. How many jobs lost, how many bankruptcies, how many farmers plowing their crops under and tightening their family belts, those who had slack...

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