Feb 24, 2026 | Economy, Tariffs, Trump Import Taxes
By: Whitney Downard – February 23, 2026 5:37 pm Some $126 billion has been paid by Americans since the tariffs were imposed, including a $4 billion cost for Pennsylvanians. Thousands of small businesses across the commonwealth paid billions of dollars under...
May 5, 2025 | Economy, Recession, Tariffs
Trains Staff STEELTON, Pa. — Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs has announced plans to temporarily but indefinitely close its Steelton plant near Harrisburg, Pa., one of only three locations in the U.S. making railroad rails. It is one of three U.S. plants the company will...
May 1, 2025 | Economy, Healthcare, Inflation, Tariffs, Trump Import Taxes
Tina Reed – Axios Hospitals across the country are starting to reckon with the effects President Trump’s tariffs are having on medical supplies like syringes and PPE, and in some cases freezing spending and making other contingencies. Why it matters: A...
Apr 30, 2025 | Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Tariffs
Jeff Cox – CNBC The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of 2025 on an import surge at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term in office as he wages a potentially costly trade war. Gross domestic product, a sum of all the goods and...
Apr 28, 2025 | Economy, Recession, Tariffs
Felix Salmon – Axios If you were president of the United States and wanted to engineer a recession by summer, at least one economist says a very effective way of doing that would be to announce sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in April. Why it...
Apr 25, 2025 | Economy, Elections, Federal Reserve, Inflation, National Security, Rule of Law, Tariffs
Neil Irwin and Courtenay Brown – Axios America’s status as the top global investment magnet is in doubt. Why it matters: Companies had been eager to spend billions to stand up factories, warehouses and more on U.S. soil, with confidence that political...
