Obama puts Congress on notice: TPP is coming

The White House put Congress on notice Friday morning that it will be sending lawmakers a bill to implement President Barack Obama’s landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement – a move intended to infuse new energy into efforts to ratify the flat-lining trade pact. [Adam Behsudi | August 12, 2016 | Politico] The submission of the draft Statement of Administration…

How the China Shock, Deep and Swift, Spurred the Rise of Trump

HICKORY, N.C.—In the late 1990s, this furniture-making hub seemed sheltered from the disruptive forces of globalization. Laid-off steelworkers from West Virginia, Tennessee and beyond streamed here for new jobs building beds, tables and chairs for American homes. The unemployment rate fell below 2%. [Bob Davis and Jon Hilsenrath| Wall Street Journal] These days, Hickory is still suffering…

TPP more likely to harm than help American workers

[Dan Lipinski| August 9, 2016 |Chicago Tribune] President Barack Obama has told Americans that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would grow American jobs as trade barriers are removed and exports to foreign countries increase. The same promises were made with past trade deals, but those deals wound up hurting America’s middle class. And unfortunately, a close reading…