Many working-class Americans have felt abandoned by a government more focused on identity politics than the fact that their real wages have been stagnant for decades. Thirty-four percent of adults have no savings. Unfortunately, new trade and economic policies of exclusion will not help.
Five million American jobs depend on trade with Mexico. Largely as a result of Donald Trump’s candidacy and election, the peso has been devaluated five times since 2016.
The loss of manufacturing jobs is more a product of automation than trade policy. Since the 2009 economic recovery, 88 percent of these jobs require more than a high […]
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