Episode Details
Back to Episodes
Checking in on NC Furniture industry amid trade war
Description
Each spring, High Point, North Carolina becomes the center of furniture design and manufacturing during the Spring Market. This year there was a twist – a looming tariff war.
Plus, how two students' lives have changed, a year after an Israel-Palestine protest.
Student activist Laura Saavedra Forero’s prestigious Morehead-Cain scholarship was suspended for a semester after she was charged with impeding traffic and resisting an officer at a pro-Palestinian protest.
Brendan Rosenblum held an Israeli flag in protest when other protestors replaced the American flag at the center of campus with a Palestinian one, and he ended up in pro-Trump 2024 campaign materials, even though he planned to vote for a Democrat.
Guests
Brianna Atkinson, higher education reporter WUNC
Paul Garber, Reporter WFDD
Mark S. Laferriere, Assurance Partner at Smith-Leonard Accountants and Consultants
Tammy Covington, President and CEO High Point Market Authority