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Recent immigration policy moves vex U.S. workers from abroad

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 5, 2018
The lives of many educated, skilled people have essentially been put on hold by a pile of changes to immigration policies.
President Donald Trump speaks in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2017, before signing the "Buy American and Hire American" executive order.
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Here’s how deficit-inducing tax cuts lead to trade deficits

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Sep 5, 2018
The U.S. trade deficit in July surged to a five-month high, $50.1 billion, as exports of products like soybeans and civilian aircraft fell, while imports reached record levels. President Donald Trump regularly complains about trade deficits, but his own spending policies tend to undermine the goal of lowering the trade gap. One part of the […]
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The president is not the economy

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 23, 2018
The word “impeachment”  has been getting a lot of play over the last few days, including by President Donald Trump, who said this during an interview on “Fox and Friends”: “I tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor.” Setting aside whether […]
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Trump stirs controversy during U.K. visit

by Stephen Beard
Jul 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has stirred up a hornet's nest in the U.K. with his blunt comments about Brexit.
President Donald Trump (L) speaks during a press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May following their meeting at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest of London on July 13, 2018 on the second day of Trump's U.K. visit.
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Here’s why foreign companies are investing less in the U.S.

by Tracey Samuelson
Jun 28, 2018
In Wisconsin today, President Donald Trump did a thing politicians like to do sometimes. Shovel in hand, he touted a big investment in the U.S. and the jobs it’s supposed to create. The shovel was gold-toned, and the investment: a $10 billion LCD display plant for the electronics manufacturer Foxconn. Thing is, foreign direct investment […]
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Trade showdown

How U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 8, 2018
For decades, the global economy has trended toward more free trade, not less. Until now.
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. They are our allies,” President Ronald Reagan said in 1988.
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The race between Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN over prime-time cable news viewers heats up

by Renata Sago
Jun 4, 2018
CNN is trailing its rivals Fox News and MSNBC in the cable news ratings race over coveted prime-time evening hours. But CNN is hoping to turn the tide with a new show.
The Cable News Network (CNN) logo adorns the top of CNN's offices on the Sunset Strip, January 24, 2000 in Hollywood, CA. 
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House passes measure giving terminally ill patients more access to experimental drugs

by Amy Scott
May 23, 2018
More patients who are terminally ill will potentially have access to experimental drugs under a measure passed by the House last night. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the so-called “right-to-try” bill. Forty states have already passed similar legislation. Currently, terminal patients not covered by those laws have only two options for getting unapproved […]
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Abe's friendly relationship with Trump didn't earn tariff exemptions for Japan

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
May 10, 2018
Tokyo expected treatment equal to that of the European Union, one expert says.
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walk to their joint press conference at the White House last year.
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Companies say they shouldn't pay tariffs on products no one makes domestically

by Phoebe Unterman and Kai Ryssdal
May 4, 2018
"I don't think people really understand that the U.S. never ... reinvested in its steel-making ability," one executive says.
A worker stacks newly cast steel slabs at the NLMK Indiana mill in March in Portage, Indiana.
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