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Does international trade kill good American jobs?
In 1824 the great British historian Thomas Macaulay remarked that "free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular" The popularity of free trade has not changed much since Macaulay's day. The 1990s were a period of expanding world trade, strong economic growth, and the lowest U.S. unemployment in 30 years. Yet the decade began with fears of the "giant sucking sound" of jobs lost due to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and ended with opponents of free trade taking to the streets in the "Battle of Seattle."
While free trade has always been the subject of complaint, the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Does international trade kill good American jobs?