Demonizing Trade Is Costing American Workers Their Jobs

"The public has been misled. The misplaced blame is particularly dangerous because it offers voters false hope. If only we block trade from China, or repeal NAFTA, or avoid an FTA with Colombia, the critical voices seem to suggest, we can return to the halcyon days of a labor market in which workers with limited educations enjoyed lifetime employment, good pay, and generous pensions. Not true."

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