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Unfair Trade and Job Loss
By Bill Scher
Created 04/15/2008 - 2:40pm

Conservative Spin: 

"...there is little evidence that trade has been a major cause of job loss or even wage stagnation so far." -- New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks, 4/15/08 [1]

Conservative Spin Footnote: 

New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks, 4/15/08 [2]

Progressive Response Footnote: 

Revisiting NAFTA, Economic Policy Institute, 9/28/06 [3]

Progressive Response: 

"...growing trade deficits with Mexico and Canada have displaced production that supported roughly 660,000 (manufacturing only) and 1.0 million (total) U.S. jobs since the agreement took effect in 1994." -- Revisiting NAFTA, Economic Policy Institute, 9/28/06 [4]

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Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/opinion/15brooks.html
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/opinion/15brooks.html
[3] http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp173
[4] http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/bp173