Fact-Checking the Obama Administration on Trade:
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Posted On: 11/27/2016 7:58:44 PM
Fact-Checking the Obama Administration on Trade:
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.
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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