Labor

“If this workforce gets even tighter and tighter, you know, it’s going to drive some folks out of production.”
“No business person in the United States is going to hire people that are terrorists or criminals. So deporting them is going to have zero impact on the economy...”
John Deere is cutting 100 positions from its Waterloo Works plant in 2025, and Butterball will cut 200 positions in Jonesboro, Ark.
From a $32 billion projected trade deficit to a drafted Farm Bill working in a deficit, here are the headlines most important to Rural Americans in June 2024.