Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses

Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks with attendees during a campaign stop at Stonyfield Farms in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on April 19, 2019. Scott Eisen / Getty Images In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Pete Buttigieg has been telling audiences that the U.S. lost six times as many jobs due to automation than trade from 2000 to 2010, according to The Washington Post . This is literally true, but for all practical purposes it is a very big lie.

The way in which it is true is that we always lose jobs to “automation,” which is known to […]

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