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#Manufacturing is the largest industry in Georgia’s 14th district, employing a significant share of both the overall and immigrant workforce. This sector includes a range of production, from textiles to machinery.

#Agriculture, including farming and related activities, is another leading industry in the district. It accounts for a notable portion of employment, especially among immigrants.

"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

“Schulz says he voted for #Trump and believes in the goals of his tariff plan, to bring #manufacturing back to the U.S. and expand exporter access to foreign markets”

Tell me how stupid you are by telling me how stupid you are. Geez, I’ll bet you the majority of his workforce are immigrants that trump pledged to deport

#Farming #Tariffs #trumpcession #TrumpRecession #farms

abc15.com/news/state/it-could-

ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV) · "It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export marketBy Adam Klepp

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The #Republican #tariff insanity will fail. Not only will it drive up prices because AMERICANS pay the #TariffTax on everything they buy, but it will also fail to bring both #jobs and #manufacturing to the USA. New industrial parks take YEARS to build, especially considering new supply chains that they depend on, and no company is going to make that investment when #Trump is out in 4 years, the American economy tanks, and the next president will reverse it all.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem

That's Late Stage Capitalism - China Style ->

"China still dominates shoe production, but its share of global exports has slipped by 10 percentage points over the past decade, with much of that going to rival hubs like Vietnam and Indonesia, according to the Yearbook.

Zhou’s plant now employs fewer than 20 workers. “The future is bleak and hopeless if we continue like this,” says Zhou from his showroom in a mostly empty wholesale market in a Guangzhou suburb focused on international trade. “It would be difficult to return to how it was before.”

Factories across China at the low-end of manufacturing are facing the same dilemma — either they invest in automation that shrinks the number of jobs, or they slowly wither away.

The result, in the view of researchers and economists, is a painful shift away from low-cost, labour-intensive production that could leave millions of older, lower skilled workers in the lurch.

Analysis of 12 labour-intensive manufacturing industries between 2011 and 2019 by academics at Changzhou University, Yancheng Teachers University and Henan University found that average employment shrank by roughly 14 per cent, or nearly 4mn roles, between 2011 and 2019. Roles in the textile industry shrank 40 per cent over the period.

An FT analysis of the same 12 sectors between 2019 and 2023 found a further decline of 3.4mn jobs."

ft.com/content/7640fe64-006a-4

SafeWork finds dozens of safety breaches at plant where silos collapsed
By Romy Gilbert

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/man

ABC News · Manildra Group hit with dozens of safety breaches after silo collapseBy Romy Gilbert

SafeWork finds dozens of safety breaches at plant where silos collapsed
By Romy Gilbert

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/man

ABC News · Manildra Group hit with dozens of safety breaches after silo collapseBy Romy Gilbert