Tariffs, Layoffs, and the Great American Backfire: How “Reshoring” is Hollowing Out the U.S. Workforce

The Broken Promise of “Reshoring” Washington promised that tariffs on foreign goods would bring jobs back to the homeland. They said it would reinvigorate the American worker, rebuild the middle class, and stick it to China. But like every other top-down plan cooked up in a back room of global summit halls, this one’s coming apart at the seams. According to corporate insiders speaking through the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), businesses aren’t hiring — they’re firing. Worse yet, they're offshoring more operations just to survive the added costs. Think about that: tariffs meant to punish foreign factories are actually incentivizing U.S. companies to go right back overseas. One transportation equipment exec put it bluntly: “We are starting to institute…