American companies continue to ship good jobs to China. They seek to profit from underpaid, overworked labor with few rights. China, meanwhile, pursues mercantilist policies, promoting its export industries at the expense of those who play by the rules. We can’t continue to let countries like China rig their currency, target our industries and drive us into a race to the bottom. It's time to enforce the rules – and to change the rules that rig the game.
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For more than three decades, we have been shedding factories and manufacturing jobs—as well as the suppliers, contractors, shippers, trainers, managers and other jobs that go along with them. Here are some basic facts you should know about the state of American manufacturing, as well as the outlines of a progressive approach that will create new jobs for a 21st-century economy.
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