As a result the U.S. has gone through the most massive dislocation of workers in its history including the Great Depression and the unemployment rate reporting is a fabrication . The data collection does not match up with past data collection of the unemployed. This is highlighted by the fact that only about 38 percent of all workers in the USA qualify for unemployment insurance. We suggest all should search out how the unemployment rate data is gathered now. See Tapart News and Art that Talks for this information at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
Free Trade is a Trap...........
Despite the insufficient jobs data, the larger point is that in the early 1990s, NAFTA advocates promised that this trade deal would help reduce the U.S. trade deficit and create more U.S. jobs that pay well. It has done neither.
Since 2000, the United States has lost more than 3 million manufacturing jobs, many from Ohio. Equally significant, since NAFTA's beginning in 1994, the cumulative trade deficit with Canada and Mexico has soared to more than $1 trillion, which represents many of those lost jobs. This aggregate U.S. data, moreover, is not in dispute.
These trade deals have created a trap whereby those companies that move their operations abroad hire penny-wage labor and ship goods back into the U.S. market and can make a great deal of money, while those which remain loyal to their American workers and stay in Ohio risk bankruptcy.
We may not know exactly how many jobs that Ohio lost because of NAFTA, but it has been more than enough to create great suffering in our state.
Marcy Kaptur
Toledo
Kaptur represents Ohio's 9th Congressional District.
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