Posted on 03/14/2016 8:08:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Workers left without a job when the state’s last sugar plantation closes this year will be able to get financial help.
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co. employees who lose their jobs will be able to get money through a federal program to help replace lost wages, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, announced Monday.
About 675 Maui residents work for Hawaii’s last sugar plantation, which plans to end sugar operations by the end of 2016. Under the federal program, workers could receive up to $2,000 a month for a year while they’re retrained for a new job. That’s in addition to state benefits and job training. […]
The federal money comes from the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which helps U.S. workers who have lost their jobs because of the negative effects of foreign trade. Maui sugar plantation workers are eligible for the program because the U.S. International Trade Commission said that dumping sugar from Mexico into U.S. markets hurt the U.S.’ sugar industry. …
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Not to worry, Cuban sugar will put Mexican sugar out of business...
Yay! Let’s federalize everything! /s
Real Sugar leads Coal.....
Once again we are paying for cheap imports and then paying again when we have to support unemployed Americans.
The tariffs should be at a minimum equal to the taxes a domestic producer would pay PLUS the cost of supporting unemployed Americans.
Once again we are paying for cheap imports and then paying again when we have to support unemployed Americans.
The tariffs should be at a minimum equal to the taxes a domestic producer would pay PLUS the cost of supporting unemployed Americans.
It doesn’t take much time to retrain for a service job or picking coffee beans. There isn’t much of anything else on Mauai.
FREE TRADE at it’s finest, unemployment,welfare,food stamps, then a promising career at WalMart to finish out your years.
How about we just let the free market set the price of sugar and let the chips fall where they may.
You know, that whole free market capitalism thingy..
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No more C&H sugar label? We are doomed. Abolish the EPA, the Energy dept, the Education dept, and every alphabet soup dept. God above, when will this country wake up? Stupid question, sorry.....
How many of those executive departments are constitutional? When they can create laws by themselves, that goes against separation of powers and even goes against the faithful execution clause . . . never mind the entire Constitution altogether. (Therefore, zero.)
Free market within our country’s borders is great. It worked great for 180 year until we lowered the import tariffs.
Free trade with low wage countries that don’t buy our trade goods in return is not good. They are buying our debt and equities. We are liquidating our country to buy their cheap imports even as we throw our fellow Americans out of work.
Free market within our country’s borders is great. It worked great for 180 year until we lowered the import tariffs.
Free trade with low wage countries that don’t buy our trade goods in return is not good. They are buying our debt and equities. We are liquidating our country to buy their cheap imports even as we throw our fellow Americans out of work.
When you have non-market economies permitted to attack the free market, that would make things as bad. Remember that free trade with non-market economies was one of the goals of the communists.
I miss the waiting green fields of Hawaiian sugar cane.they were so wonderful to watch in the Wind. especially in the Moonlight.it was one of the worst things Hawaii ever did, to let that industry go. this is the end of an era, and it was a wonderful era. Aloha
The congress has authorized these unconstitutional agencies. Still they are unconstitutional, ergo have no force of law except for a swat team holding their flank—which every one is funded to have.
Rich chinese are buying up prime real estate in Hawaii and California faster than you can say “I’d like sweet an sour sauce with that.”
Why wouldn’t the ChiComs buy up everything here? They’ve been paid for their slave labor in US dollars and need a place to spend it. It isn’t like we have a growing (or even stable) population that needs the space; our population is dwindling faster than you can say “beef & broccoli”.
How do you think 2008 and 2012 happened?
http://sugarreform.org/why-reform/history-of-the-sugar-program/
“The Coalition for Sugar Reform continues its efforts to advocate for reform of the sugar program in order to put an end to tight sugar supplies, high sugar prices, plant closures, job losses, and unnecessary and wasteful government intrusion on domestic sugar production.”
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