Reporters' Memo: Data Show Trade Had Greater Impact Than Automation on Manufacturing Job Loss
October 17, 2019
October 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- Public Citizen issued the following news release:
The Ohio Democratic debate launched the latest wave of stories wrongly telling people that automation - not trade - caused the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs in recent years. Jobs are lost for many reasons. But the "automation rather than trade story" is not supported by the data. Indeed, researchers increasingly are concluding that trade was the predominant cause of manufacturing job lo . . .
The Ohio Democratic debate launched the latest wave of stories wrongly telling people that automation - not trade - caused the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs in recent years. Jobs are lost for many reasons. But the "automation rather than trade story" is not supported by the data. Indeed, researchers increasingly are concluding that trade was the predominant cause of manufacturing job lo . . .