Tariffs Are Making Instruments So Expensive, School Music Programs Are at Risk

New York Times - Oct 2, 2026

When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.

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Tariffs Are Making Instruments So Expensive, School Music Programs Are at Risk

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What Democrats would do about Gen Z’s housing crisis if they win Congress

GOP pushes for oversight of Musk’s dominance of space

Inside the unlikely coalition taking on prediction markets

Trump announces he'll use Defense Production Act to increase domestic gas production

Treasury proposes curbs on high-tech investments in China, Russia, North Korea

Treasury proposes curbs on high-tech investments in China, Russia, North Korea

SpaceX investor: Starlink is ‘not reliable for national security for anybody but Trump’

Trump signs executive order geared at lowering housing, mortgage costs

Hegseth bars US forces from using undisclosed information to bet on Polymarket, Kalshi

Talarico accuses Musk of buying his ‘own personal U.S. Senator’

Workers hit hard by rising employer health insurance costs

'You Can See Everything': Questions left unanswered by Elizabeth Holmes doc

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