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Professor Michael Waugh discusses how on-again-off-again trade talks between the US and China have disproportionately impacted communities around the country

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Excerpt from The New York Times -- "There are signs that in the places most exposed to the trade war — particularly Wisconsin and other Midwestern states — those effects have spread beyond the industrial sector and begun to affect consumers. In a recent working paper, Michael E. Waugh, an economist at New York University, found that automobile sales were growing significantly more slowly in the counties most affected by the tariffs than in the rest of the country. Those places have also seen slower job growth in their retail sectors."

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