Chart: Wal-Mart share of jobs lost due to growth of U.S. goods trade deficit with China, 2001–2013

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Wal-Mart share of jobs lost due to growth of U.S. goods trade deficit with China, 2001–2013

Category	Jobs
Other U.S. trade	2,741,700
Wal-Mart	415,400

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Source: Author's analysis of U.S. Census Bureau (2013), U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC 2014), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS 2014), BLS Employment Projections program (BLS-EP 2014a and 2014b), and Scott and Kimball (2014).

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A Conservative Estimate of ‘The Wal-Mart Effect’: Wal-Mart’s growing trade deficit with China has displaced more than 400,000 U.S. jobs

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