Economics
Lost Jobs of North Carolina Are Gone for Good. Few Seem to Mind
Tariffs aren’t bringing back U.S. furniture jobs. And even if they did, many wouldn’t want them
Employees cut out templates by hand at the CR Laine factory in Hickory, North Carolina, on Aug. 12.
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Robert Tomlinson, a soft-spoken 53-year-old, keeps the boilers running at a shuttered Broyhill furniture factory by day, and by night retreats to his small wood-frame home next door in Lenoir, North Carolina.