TRUMP'S TRADE WAR - Tail of Two Factories

"How Trump’s tariffs changed the fates of these two factories" PBS NewsHour 8/2/2018

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SUMMARY:  How are President Trump's tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum affecting manufacturers and workers?  At two different Missouri factories, there are two very different stories.  Mid Continent Steel and Wire, which makes nails, has already eliminated 100 jobs.  But about 60 miles away at Magnitude 7 Metals, the reopened aluminum smelter is back up and running with hundreds of jobs.  John Yang reports.

EL SALVADOR - Factory+College Pipeline

"The factory that combines school and work to give El Salvador a brighter future" PBS NewsHour 3/5/2018

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SUMMARY:  At a garment factory that makes T-shirts bearing the logos of American universities, about a fifth of the workers at high-school dropouts.  But if they want to keep their jobs, they'll need to do something about it.  Special correspondent Fred De Sam Lazaro reports from El Salvador on the factory turned college pipeline that employs those normally left out of society, including ex-gang members.