Fact-Checking the Obama Administration on Trade:
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Debunking Data Distortions from Obama's Trade Representative
Years of unfair, corporate-rigged "trade" deals have contributed to ballooning U.S. trade deficits, mass offshoring of good U.S. jobs, and a historic increase in U.S. income inequality.
But rather than change our failed trade policies, the administration appears bent on trying to hide the facts — by changing the data.
As U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman pushes for the largest expansions of the corporate-rigged "trade" model to date — the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — his office has resorted to data distortions to obscure the dismal outcomes of past trade deals.
Here's a sampling of USTR's outlandish claims, based on data distortions and omissions, alongside the sobering realities about our trade policies, based on official U.S. government data.
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