Policy

Tire Tariff Costs $900K for Each Job "Saved"

Why not just cut each worker a check for a fraction of the price?

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President Barack Obama had a clear message for Cincinnati and Columbus during visits Monday: auto manufacturing is too important to the economy for the government to let it fall victim to foreign manipulation.

He promoted his administration's $80 billion package to protect United Auto Workers contracts from General Motors' bankruptcy restructuring and announced that the U.S. would be filing a new complaint with the World Trade Organization accusing the Chinese government of giving money to its own auto parts industry.