{"id":32101,"date":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/people-wanted-change-scranton-felt-the-pinch-but-are-trump-tariffs-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:43:40","slug":"people-wanted-change-scranton-felt-the-pinch-but-are-trump-tariffs-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/people-wanted-change-scranton-felt-the-pinch-but-are-trump-tariffs-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People wanted change\u2019: Scranton felt the pinch \u2013 but are Trump tariffs the answer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Biden\u2019s home town turned to Trump to lower prices, but some are wary of the president\u2019s economic plans<\/p>\n<p>The annual Downtown on Ice festival is under way in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ice sculptures are dotted around the city \u2013 there was little chance of them melting as an Arctic blast pulled temperatures down to 15F (-9C).<\/p>\n<p>Inside Boscov\u2019s, a 100-year-old department store, Sue Sloan says she can\u2019t wait for spring. The 60\u2013year-old housekeeper says she\u2019s also looking for other changes. \u201cEverything is so expensive,\u201d she says. \u201cFood prices, eggs, meat, gas, electricity, everything. It\u2019s terrible,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/scranton-trump-biden-us-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Biden\u2019s home town turned to Trump to lower prices, but some are wary of the president\u2019s economic plans The annual Downtown on Ice festival is under way in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ice sculptures are dotted around the city \u2013 there was little chance of them melting as an Arctic blast pulled temperatures down to &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018People wanted change\u2019: Scranton felt the pinch \u2013 but are Trump tariffs the answer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/people-wanted-change-scranton-felt-the-pinch-but-are-trump-tariffs-the-answer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018People wanted change\u2019: Scranton felt the pinch \u2013 but are Trump tariffs the answer?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}