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Art Wheaton, director of labor studies, says the price of some non-luxury vehicles could go up as much as $20,000 if automakers pass on tariff costs in full.

“They were being asked to work harder and longer hours, and move from patient to patient, without providing the kind of care that they wanted,” said Kate L. Bronfenbrenner. “Then you have COVID, where nurses were literally dying, and also dealing with much more acute conditions and understaffing.”

Professor Rosemary Batt explains how private equity's increasing role in health care is affecting patients.

“The tariffs would need to be in place for an extended period of time with some expectation that they won’t change,” Art Wheaton said, for companies to feel like it’s worth investing in workforce development, and for workers to feel like it’s worth training for those jobs.

Art Wheaton, senior extension associate at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, reflects on the arc of Trump's tariff campaign.

“In the electric vehicle segment, tariffs are a boon to fiercely anti-union Tesla, which will benefit from the disarray of competitors (including the Big Three) who need time to rethink production strategies and retool factories. Any new automotive jobs will be overwhelmingly nonunion,” says Ian Greer.