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Growing China trade deficit cost 3.7 million American jobs between 2001 and 2018: Jobs lost in every U.S. state and congressional district
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The China toll deepens: Growth in the bilateral trade deficit between 2001 and 2017 cost 3.4 million U.S. jobs, with losses in every state and congressional district
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Manufacturing job loss: the consequences of malign neglect of the dollar and Chinese overcapacity
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The Trump trade scam
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The Consequences of Neglecting Manufacturing: Compared with Other Nations, U.S. Has More Import Competition in Leading Export Industries
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Unfair trade deals lower the wages of US workers
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Currency Manipulation and the 896,600 U.S. Jobs Lost Due to the U.S.-Japan Trade Deficit
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China Trade, Outsourcing and Jobs: Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 3.2 million jobs between 2001 and 2013, with job losses in every state
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What Is Manufacturing and Where Does It Happen?: The U.S. Should Reconsider Plans to Mask Trade Deficit by Reclassifying Factoryless Production and Contract Manufacturing
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Surging Steel Imports Put Up To Half a Million U.S. Jobs at Risk
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The China toll: Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost more than 2.7 million jobs between 2001 and 2011, with job losses in every state
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Trading away the manufacturing advantage: China trade drives down U.S. wages and benefits and eliminates good jobs for U.S. workers
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No Jobs from Trade Pacts: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Be Much Worse than the Over-Hyped Korea Deal
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Using standard models to benchmark the costs of globalization for American workers without a college degree
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Reducing U.S. trade deficits will generate a manufacturing-based recovery for the United States and Ohio: Ending currency manipulation by China and others is the place to start
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American rescue, infrastructure, and inflation-reduction acts are big steps in right direction: But much more infrastructure investment is needed to secure a prosperous and equitable future
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President Biden’s first 18 months: Assessing the Biden administration’s record for workers
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Revoking tariffs would not tame inflation: But it would leave our supply chains even more vulnerable to disruption
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U.S. trade deficits hit record highs in 2021: More effective trade, industrial, and currency policies are needed to create more domestic manufacturing jobs
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Botched policy responses to globalization have decimated manufacturing employment with often overlooked costs for Black, Brown, and other workers of color: Investing in infrastructure and rebalancing trade can create good jobs for all
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Tariff increases did not cause inflation, and their removal would undermine domestic supply chains
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Cutting the reconciliation bill to $1.5 trillion would support nearly 2 million fewer jobs per year
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The stakes for workers in how policymakers manage the coming shift to all-electric vehicles
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Aluminum producing and consuming industries have thrived under U.S. Section 232 import measures
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Media advisory: Trade experts to release new Economic Policy Institute study on U.S. Section 232 aluminum tariffs
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Why Global Steel Surpluses Warrant U.S. Section 232 Import Measures
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U.S. trade deficit hits record high in 2020: The Biden administration must prioritize rebuilding domestic manufacturing
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Memorandum on U.S. trade and manufacturing policy
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Investment in infrastructure and clean energy would create at least 6.9 million good jobs: Manufacturing, construction, and transportation sectors would gain the most
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Rebuilding American manufacturing—potential job gains by state and industry: Analysis of trade, infrastructure, and clean energy/energy efficiency proposals
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We can reshore manufacturing jobs, but Trump hasn’t done it: Trade rebalancing, infrastructure, and climate investments could create 17 million good jobs and rebuild the American economy
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Ending offshoring and bringing jobs back home will take more than tweets, press releases, and op-eds
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Weak labor protections have put Midwestern food processing workers at risk for coronavirus
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A comprehensive U.S. manufacturing policy is needed now more than ever
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Why is Trump putting critical protective equipment on layaway at Walmart?
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EPI President Thea Lee testifies before the House Committee on Ways and Means on U.S.–China Trade and Competition (Video)
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EPI President testifies before the House Committee on Ways and Means on U.S.–China Trade and Competition
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U.S.–China Trade and Competition: Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means
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Declining trade balances disguise continued growth in the non-oil trade deficit
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Trump’s ‘blue-collar boom’ is likely a dud
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Wilbur Ross’s comments and Trump administration trade policies offer few answers for growing, job-destroying China trade deficit
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The growing trade deficit with China eliminated 3.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2018
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China trade deal will not restore 3.7 million U.S. jobs lost since China entered the WTO in 2001
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U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement—Weak tea, at best
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EPI President Thea Lee joins Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Affirming American Leadership