Over 80 percent of Americans are already concerned about the price of groceries and many are struggling to stay afloat.
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Few have felt the whiplash of President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs with China more than American farmers. The US is the world’s largest exporter of agricultural products, from corn to soybeans, wheat, and cotton. And the largest importer of America’s farm products? China. The two countries have engaged in a back-and-forth series of escalating […]
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I’m a Farmer Who Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Are Stressing Me Out. Read Post »
The Democratic Party has commissioned a taco truck to serve free lunch outside the Republican National Committee’s DC headquarters beginning at noon on Tuesday. “Trump always chickens out—we’re just bringing the tacos to match.” The giveaway is not just to mark taco Tuesday, says a Democratic National Committee staffer who tipped Mother Jones off about […]
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Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump had attended. Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking out against Trump’s sweeping tariffs. He […]
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