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Trump’s promised ‘manufacturing boom’ couldn’t save these Whirlpool jobs

Whirlpool laid off over half the Amana plant workforce this month amid rising costs from tariffs and strategic shifts to Mexican factories, despite tariff aims to boost US manufacturing.

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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — The US has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs over the last year. Beverly Dawson’s family was among them. Dawson was laid off this month at Whirlpool’s refrigerator factory in Amana, a small town in eastern Iowa. Her son’s offer to work full-time at the plant when he graduates from college in a few semesters was also pulled. Her husband was the only one to survive the latest round of layoffs. At the…

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Trump’s promised ‘manufacturing boom’ couldn’t save these Whirlpool jobs

Whirlpool recently laid off hundreds of workers in Iowa. Despite the administration’s vow to boost domestic production, the decades-long decline in US manufacturing has continued under Trump.

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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