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6. One Million US Jobs Lost -
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 09:06 AM
Feb 2014

since NAFTA was passed.

And folks want TPP?

Seriously, with jobs flying out of the country we will have folks living in the street at this rate.

NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Higher Income Inequality
Posted: 01/06/2014 3:19 pm

For NAFTA's unhappy 20th anniversary, Public Citizen has published a report that details the wreckage. Not only did promises made by NAFTA's proponents not materialize, but many results are exactly the opposite.

Such outcomes include a staggering $181 billion U.S. trade deficit with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada and the related loss of 1 million net U.S. jobs under NAFTA, growing income inequality, displacement of more than one million Mexican campesino farmers and a doubling of desperate immigration from Mexico, and more than $360 million paid to corporations after "investor-state" tribunal attacks on, and rollbacks of, domestic public interest policies ...

Much more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/nafta-at-20-one-million-u_b_4550207.html

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