'Progressive' Coalition for Fast Track and TPP Appears from Nowhere

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68. Trade-Related Job Loss by State

Don't listen to conservatives trying bullshit you on how wonderful TPP is for American jobs. They are deliberately debying the facts. It isn't. Like NAFTA it will be a disaster. One day, you'll have to explain to your kids why it just made pragmatic sense to sell their jobs to Asia.

Seriously - what the fuck is wrong with people who think India and China deserve jobs from American corporations more than we do?


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Texas Job Loss During the NAFTA-WTO Period

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Texas lost 90,013 manufacturing jobs (or 9.3 percent) during the NAFTA-WTO period (1994-2014), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.* This figure is for total manufacturing employment, so it takes into account both jobs created by exports and jobs displaced by imports, among other causes of net job change. The percentage of all private sector jobs that are manufacturing jobs in Texas declined from 15.8 percent to 9.3 percent during the NAFTA-WTO period.

These are aggregate numbers, but the Department of Labor tracks instances of specific workers at specific workplaces who applied for special benefits for trade-displaced workers. In Texas, there are 159,059 such workers certified as having lost their job due to imports or offshoring under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. (Note: This program is difficult to qualify for, and this figure only includes those workers who were certified.)

The Economic Policy Institute found that by 2011, 55,600 jobs had been lost or displaced in Texas – and over 680,000 in the United States – due to the rise in the trade deficit with Mexico alone since NAFTA was enacted in 1994.

The Economic Policy Institute also found that by 2012, 193,700 jobs had been lost or displaced in Texas – and over 2.7 million in the United States – due to the rise in the trade deficit with China since it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

* The latest available manufacturing employment data is for the second quarter of 2014. The change in the number of manufacturing jobs is defined here as the change between the third quarter of 1993 and the fourth quarter of 2013 to account for seasonal employment variations.

California Job Loss During the NAFTA-WTO Period

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California lost 432,517 manufacturing jobs (or 25.7 percent) during the NAFTA-WTO period (1994-2014), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.* This figure is for total manufacturing employment, so it takes into account both jobs created by exports and jobs displaced by imports, among other causes of net job change. The percentage of all private sector jobs that are manufacturing jobs in California declined from 16.2 percent to 9.4 percent during the NAFTA-WTO period.

These are aggregate numbers, but the Department of Labor tracks instances of specific workers at specific workplaces who applied for special benefits for trade-displaced workers. In California, there are 160,064 such workers certified as having lost their job due to imports or offshoring under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. (Note: This program is difficult to qualify for, and this figure only includes those workers who were certified.)

The Economic Policy Institute found that by 2011, 86,500 jobs had been lost or displaced in California – and over 680,000 in the United States – due to the rise in the trade deficit with Mexico alone since NAFTA was enacted in 1994.

The Economic Policy Institute also found that by 2012, 370,000 jobs had been lost or displaced in California – and over 2.7 million in the United States – due to the rise in the trade deficit with China since it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

* The latest available manufacturing employment data is for the second quarter of 2014. The change in the number of manufacturing jobs is defined here as the change between the third quarter of 1993 and the fourth quarter of 2013 to account for seasonal employment variations.