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Sanders: Trade agreements sending U.S. jobs overseas
LANSING TWP. - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said "disastrous" trade policies such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans Pacific Partnership are major reasons why American jobs are being shipped overseas.
"NAFTA and other trade policies were written by corporate America because they did not want to pay workers a living wage," the Vermont senator told a crowd of roughly 30 union workers at the Hyatt Place at the Heights at Eastwood in Lansing Township Thursday morning.
Sanders said he opposed NAFTA while his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, supported it along with permanent normal trade relations with China and Vietnam.
"American workers are being forced to compete with people who make $1.50 an hour," he said. "We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001 ... almost all of them are because of trade agreements."
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http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/03/03/sanders-trade-agreements-sending-us-jobs-overseas/81261484/"NAFTA and other trade policies were written by corporate America because they did not want to pay workers a living wage," the Vermont senator told a crowd of roughly 30 union workers at the Hyatt Place at the Heights at Eastwood in Lansing Township Thursday morning.
Sanders said he opposed NAFTA while his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, supported it along with permanent normal trade relations with China and Vietnam.
"American workers are being forced to compete with people who make $1.50 an hour," he said. "We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001 ... almost all of them are because of trade agreements."
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