The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs [The New York Times] – “When Mr. Bird, 33, found out that he was being laid off, he did not hear it from “Cliffs.” he said. Rather, he learned about it in a breaking news segment on the local television station, WDIO, while with his children on one of his days off. Some 1,200 Cleveland-Cliffs employees were affected, 600 them in Minnesota.
“It’s a hell of a way to find out you’re losing your job,” he said. “It feels like a slap in the face, honestly, from corporate America.”
Yet one thing currently uniting Cleveland-Cliffs and Mr. Bird, a member of the United Steelworkers union, is support for President Trump’s tariffs: a 25 percent tax on steel and aluminum imports along with a 25 percent tariff on all imported cars.”