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Outsourcing Undercuts the Vulnerable
By John Martin Former machinist, author “LOST SOURCE” In his July 24, 2013 statement titled Social Justice Requires Economic Justice, USW International President Leo W. Gerard talked about the...
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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Shrank In June
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future The enormous, humongous, vast, staggering, unbelievable, job-sucking, economy-sucking US trade deficit shrank to “only” $34.2 billion from a...
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America Deserves A Solar Manufacturing Industry
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future America used to manufacture silicon chips. Now much of that industry has moved to China. Solar-panel manufacturing will be a huge industry of the...
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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Grows
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future The July trade report is out. Exports are rising, but imports are rising even more. So our vast, humongous, enormous, out-of-control trade deficit...
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The Rebuilt Verrazano Bridge: Made in China
John Shinn Director, District 4, United Steelworkers Union We first learned from a Chinese newspaper report how the NY Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) had let out a contract to replace the steel...
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A BIT with China Is the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem
Celeste Drake AFL-CIO Trade & Globalization Policy SpecialistThe United States is currently negotiating a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with China. When most people think of a “bit,” they think...
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Enormous, Humongous China Trade Deficit Breaks Record — Again
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future The US Census Bureau’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest monthly U.S. trade figures last week. And we have a winner — September’s...
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Is It Finally Time for Currency Trade Legislation?
Gilbert B. Kaplan Former Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Commerce The September trade deficit with China, at $30.5 billion, was the highest on record. By that...
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Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Falls, Thanks To Oil And Exports
By Dave Johnson Fellow, Campaign for America's Future This week the U.S. Census Bureau’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released trade deficit figures for November. The enormous, humongous trade deficit...
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Free Trade and the Loss of U.S. Jobs
By Harold Meyerson Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect When President Obama delivers his State of the Union address this month, he will surely highlight the issue of growing economic inequality and...
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