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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4728155" data-attributes="member: 54375">donald&#039;s trade war with China resulted in more than <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-farmers-aid/trumps-payments-to-farmers-hit-all-time-high-ahead-of-election-idUKL1N2GT1C8" target="_blank">one-third</a> of farm income coming from government subsidies in 2020.&nbsp; <ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&quot;Between Trump’s inauguration day and the end of June this year, the Labor Department certified 1,996 petitions related to companies shifting <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/u-s-trade-deficit-widened-in-august-to-largest-since-2006" target="_blank">work overseas</a>. Those petitions covered 184,888 jobs in fields ranging from manufacturing to back-office functions for financial services companies. In other words, offshoring didn’t stop in the Trump administration.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">12,552 more jobs left the U.S. in the first three-and-a-half years of the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/the-great-decoupling-what-s-next-for-u-s-china-rift-quicktake" target="_blank">Trump presidency</a> than did in the equivalent period of the presidential term immediately before.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the first six months of this year — in decisions often made before the pandemic — 17 different companies cut jobs at 25 different plants in the U.S. to shift work overseas, according to the Labor Department data.&quot;</li>
</ul>Bloomberg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4728155, member: 54375"] donald's trade war with China resulted in more than [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-farmers-aid/trumps-payments-to-farmers-hit-all-time-high-ahead-of-election-idUKL1N2GT1C8']one-third[/URL] of farm income coming from government subsidies in 2020. [LIST] [*]"Between Trump’s inauguration day and the end of June this year, the Labor Department certified 1,996 petitions related to companies shifting [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/u-s-trade-deficit-widened-in-august-to-largest-since-2006']work overseas[/URL]. Those petitions covered 184,888 jobs in fields ranging from manufacturing to back-office functions for financial services companies. In other words, offshoring didn’t stop in the Trump administration. [*]12,552 more jobs left the U.S. in the first three-and-a-half years of the [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-15/the-great-decoupling-what-s-next-for-u-s-china-rift-quicktake']Trump presidency[/URL] than did in the equivalent period of the presidential term immediately before. [*]In the first six months of this year — in decisions often made before the pandemic — 17 different companies cut jobs at 25 different plants in the U.S. to shift work overseas, according to the Labor Department data." [/LIST] Bloomberg [/QUOTE]

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