"While the unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent in January, from a two-decade peak of 10.1 percent in October 2009, many of the jobs people are now taking don't match the pay, the hours, or the benefits of the 8.75 million positions that vanished in the recession, according to Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto."
That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff
Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest
of the World, too
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How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China
(and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
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