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Chapter One: Massive Trade Deficits are the Major Cause of Inequality in America (3)
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In 1993, Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) projected that NAFTA would lead to a rising U.S. trade surplus with Mexico, which would create 170,000 net new jobs per year in the United States. This figure was trumpeted by the Clinton administration and other NAFTA proponents.
Hufbauer and Schott based their projection on the observat...
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