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Tariffs and Trade
The president has pitched his trade policies at workers who feel left behind by globalization. But that doesn’t mean trade barriers will revive factories and close income gaps.
The port in Los Angeles. President Trump’s argument for tariffs is that they will pressure companies to bring well-paid manufacturing jobs back to America, but hyper globalization is only one of the factors that has led to America’s rising inequality.Credit...Mark Abramson for The New York Times
