After Doubts, Economists Find China Kills U.S. Factory Jobs
At one time, most economists believed automation had destroyed the jobs, but they're seeing new data that China did its part.
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A generation of economists trained to believe that trade had little to do with the long decline in high-paying U.S. factory jobs is changing its mind.
Their findings are likely to fuel the opposition within President Barack Obama’s own Democratic Party to his proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership and similar pacts lowering barriers to international commerce.