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Trump’s promised ‘manufacturing boom’ couldn’t save these Whirlpool jobs

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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The US has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the last year. Beverly Dawson’s family was among them. Dawson was laid off this month at Whirlpool’s refrigerator factory in Amana, a small town in eastern Iowa. Her son’s offer to work full-time at the plant when he graduates from college in a few semesters was also pulled. Her husband was the only one to survive the latest round of layoffs. At the…

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Trump’s promised ‘manufacturing boom’ couldn’t save these Whirlpool jobs

Whirlpool recently laid off hundreds of workers in Iowa. Despite the administration’s vow to boost domestic production, the decades-long decline in US manufacturing has continued under Trump.

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