Tariffs hit like a Mack truck

关税犹如重型卡车般猛烈冲击。

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2025-05-01

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Workers at a Mack truck plant in Pennsylvania hoped tariffs would help protect their jobs. Now they are facing layoffs — and corporate is citing tariffs as the reason. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Dan Hand has worked at Mack Truck's Lehigh Valley plant for nearly three decades. Photo by Miles Bryan for Vox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • you The American economy is starting to shake under the weight of President Trump's tariff chaos.

  • So your answer to the concern about the tariffs is everything's going to be hunky-dory?

  • Everything's going to be just fine.

  • And it's not just the stock market anymore.

  • The national economy, we learned today, shrank in the first quarter of this year.

  • Down three-tenths of a percent.

  • We haven't had a negative number since first quarter of 22.

  • If it shrinks in the second, that's the dictionary definition of a recession, folks.

  • Chinese exports to the U.S. are plunging.

  • Keep your third eye open for shortages.

  • And around the country, tariff layoffs are underway.

  • Major layoffs for UPS.

  • By next month, 20,000 workers will lose their job.

  • And that's on top of several facilities set to close.

  • All of this, says the press, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.

  • Except, as we're going to hear, the tariff layoffs are hitting manufacturing now, too.

  • Coming up on Today Explained, we take a trip.

  • Everything's going to be just fine.

  • This week on A Touch More, we are live at Deep Blue's Business of Women's Sports Summit.

  • Our special guest is Chelsea Clinton,