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Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’ | Trump administration

Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’ | Trump administration

For decades, a line of storefronts in Jeffersonville, Ohio, a town of 1,200 people 40 minutes south-west of Columbus, lay empty. But now locals are hard at work renovating the downtown and paving streets in anticipation of a potential economic boom fueled by a huge new electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant. Two miles south of Jeffersonville, Korean and Japanese companies …

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