NewsFlash: Is NAFTA to blame for PA workers’ troubles?
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NewsFlash: April 17, 2008
Is NAFTA to blame for PA workers’
troubles?
Pennsylvania’s hotly contested
presidential primary has garnered attention to the plight of that
state’s workers and the role that NAFTA plays in the dramatic loss
of good manufacturing jobs over the last decade. In a
blog post for the New York Times, EPI international economist
Robert
Scott offers some insight into the impact that globalization
and trade growth had on the state since NAFTA and other trade deals
were implemented.
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