Robert Reich: Trade agreements are simply ravaging the middle class
I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains.The old-style trade agreements of the 1960s and 1970s increased worldwide demand for products made by American workers, and thereby helped push up American wages.The new-style agreements increase worldwide demand for products made by American corporations all over the world, enhancing corporate and financial profits but keeping Amer
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