US presidential candidate Andrew Yang "is full of it," argues Slate & # 39; s senior business and economic correspondent, challenging Yang & # 39; s claim (in a Tuesday debate) that American jobs were lost to automation:
After the debate, a "fact check,quot; by the AP claimed that Yang was right and Warren wrong. "Economists blame job losses primarily on automation and robots, not on trade deals," it said. But this was not correct. Such a consensus does not exist, and if there is anything, the evidence strongly suggests that trade has been the main culprit in recent decades. […]
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