The jobs most vulnerable under the next Trump administration
CNN
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to create more American jobs and protect existing ones. But many of his proposals and expected policy changes threaten to have the opposite effect for some working Americans.
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to create more American jobs and protect existing ones. But experts many of his proposals and expected policy changes threaten to have the opposite effect for some working Americans. It remains unclear as to which of Trump’s initiatives will be implemented. He has pledged mass deportations of people who entered the country illegally and sweeping, across-the-board tariffs on all imports worldwide. Nevertheless, the implications for the American workforce are huge. For some industries, his policies could create more jobs. For example, higher tariffs could help boost American manufacturing jobs if more businesses decide they want their goods made domestically to avoid the added cost of importing. A spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition team told CNN in a statement that Trump is committed to repeating “his first term’s successes,” including “historic job growth for everyday Americans.” (While unemployment in the US was historically low throughout much of Trump’s first term, the economy shed millions of jobs during the pandemic. As a result, when he departed the White House fewer Americans were employed compared to when he arrived.) Still, even as some industries could expand under Trump’s second term, many others could be forced to lay off masses of workers as a result of new potential policies he signs into law. Here are the sectors that could be most vulnerable:
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