Tag: free trade agreements
Why a “Job-Killing” Trade Program Deserves Americans’ Support
August 21, 2016 | Post
A preoccupation with jobs over productivity is not sound economics as Professor Mihail Nica explains.
Policy Leaders Call This "The Worst Trade Deal Ever Negotiated." Here's How It's Impacting Americans.
July 21, 2016 | Post
According to policy leader Donald Trump, NAFTA is “the worst trade deal ever negotiated” and it needs to be renegotiated. He said, in fact, that it might even be worth the United States pulling out of NAFTA if better terms couldn’t be reached. Why? Trump’s worried that the trade deal is taking jobs away from […]
Open Letter to Bernie Sanders
March 18, 2016 | Post
Mr. Sanders: In last-night’s debate you said: “I was on a picket line in the early 1990s against Nafta, because you didn’t need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.” I’m told that you’re a principled man who […]