Further Reading

Almost everyone agrees that our economy is in big trouble. The challenge for progressive political candidates is shaping a message that will rally voters around a solid agenda for change. This offers ammunition for the fight, with links to the latest information and most persuasive arguments that will help candidates and their supporters make that case for change.

As American consumers buy a sharply increased share of their goods from overseas, the American government has been cutting back its ability to regulate and inspect imports. Americans consumers are thus exposed to increasing numbers of products that were neither produced in America nor subject to American safety standards. The results put people at risk.

This briefing paper examines what conventional economics actually predicts about the effects of integrating the rich United States and poor global economies and provides rough empirical estimates of integration’s effect on American wages and inequality.

This study shows that the growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced numerous American jobs.

Bill Moyers interviews John R. MacArthur on trade policy and the public perception of free trade.

This page offers a compendium of presidential candidates’ votes on trade bills as well as relevant quotes.

Harold Meyerson examines how the debate over free trade ushered in a new progressive center on trade issues.

This page includes an assessment of how opposition to NAFTA-like trade policies figured into the 2006 elections.