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Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President
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The disarray in the Democratic Party in 2015 over trade agreements, worker wages, and increasing inequality during two terms of the Obama administration
06/12/2015
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Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President
New York Times 06/12/2015
Obama Bolsters His Leverage With Trade Victory, but at a Cost
New York Times 06/24/2015
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U.S. Congressional opposition to giving trade promotion authority to president Obama, and fast track for TPP, other free trade pacts
02/26/2015
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Lawmakers Introduce ‘Fast Track’ Trade Bill, Triggering Democratic Discord
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2015
TPP: Momentum on Trade Deal Bolsters U.S., Japan Efforts to Counter China
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2015
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2015
Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Accord
New York Times 04/16/2015
Obama Tries Tough Sale of TPP Trade Deal to Fellow Democrats
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2015
Obama Promotes Benefits of Trade Deals to Workers and Smaller Businesses
New York Times 02/26/2015
How teachers, firefighters and service workers union joined the opposition to the TPP and granting fast track trade authority in 2015, and why
06/12/2015
Firefighters and other service workers unions actively campaigned against the trade bills in Congress for the first time in 2015. The public sector unions now see how the closing of American factories, the decline in neighborhoods near plants, affects the demand for public services and the ability of cities and municipalities to pay for the public services. The decline in wages for industrial workers creates a negative perception for the higher wages in the public sector, reducing support from struggling industrial workers. The drastic drop in factory wages with globalization and the shrinking revenues of cities as incomes decline, is leading to a realization in labor that workers are affected in many ways by seemingly unrelated developments in trade and globalization. Another development is the expert information that shows the need for investment in infrastructure in the poorer countries of Latin America, and in the U.S., which would provide significant benefits. The benefits from trade tariff reduction are now small, as most of the benefits were achieved through earlier action in trade.
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Labor’s Might Seen in Failure of Trade Deal as Unions Allied to Thwart It
New York Times 06/13/2015
Washington Dysfunction, With a Twist: Democrats Desert Their President
New York Times 06/12/2015
Unions Declare Partial Victory Against Obama’s Pacific Trade Deal
Wall Street Journal 06/15/2015
Washington Post 10/23/2015
McConnell warns that trade deal can’t pass Congress before 2016 elections - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/11/2015
Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Would Lift U.S. Incomes, but Not Jobs Overall, Study Says
New York Times 01/25/2016
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