Tidbits – Apr.10 – Reader Comments: Trump Tariffs Tanked Economy; How Dems Can Win by Organizing From the County Up; Library Assn Sues To Stop Trump Cuts; New Resource – Black Federal Workers by State; Webinar-Labor and the Crisis of Democracy;

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Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going To Work How He Thinks They Will

Kate Aronoff The New Republic
Supposedly, this is all going to revive domestic manufacturing. But the evidence for that is slim, and it wouldn’t happen overnight—especially not without other policies. At a basic level, tariffs make stuff more expensive.

Worse Than a Crime; It’s a Blunder

Anatol Lieven, Harold Meyerson, Ryan Cooper The American Prospect
The meaning and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response

Can Manufacturing Be Reborn in the U.S.A.?

David Moberg In These Times
Extending the current model of free trade agreements is at odds with a factory renaissance. The trickle of reshoring has raised public hopes, as well as valid doubts about the infallible wisdom the stampede offshore with little appreciation of the needs or potential of. A real renaissance in American manufacturing will require energetic, high-road government intervention with an eye to innovation, not simply fatter paychecks in Guangzhou province.
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