Mexico trade pact costs U.S. nearly 700,000 jobs (NAFTA, unemployment, minimum wage)

[All American NYC]

Business with Mexico since adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement has cost the U.S. 682,900 jobs over 16 years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute. An estimated 10,700 were in Orange County.

Why are we loosing so many jobs? What is Obama doing?

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[VTHokieFan]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Why are we loosing so many jobs? What is Obama doing?

We're losing jobs because people like you don't want them and insist on inflationary minimum wages. We're also losing jobs because of the toxic regulatory and tax environment in this country. Welcome to European style structural unemployment.

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Why are we loosing so many jobs? What is Obama doing?

I had forgotten that Obama was the one who signed NAFTA back in the 90s...Or that there hasn't been two presidents in office for two whole terms each since NAFTA was passed in 1994.