Its official- President Trump is looking to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). News broke when the White House sent an official notice to Congress that failed to include details or a hint of the President’s vision on how he plans to renegotiate the notoriously flawed trade agreement. Working people and their unions were quick to respond.
Read MoreLoss of Manufacturing Jobs and Fissured Economy Symptoms of Same Illness
Eduardo Porter of the New York Times penned an interesting column this week that posits that President Trump is missing the mark with his economic focus on the return of manufacturing instead of addressing the scourge of big corporations outsourcing full-time in-house employment to subcontractors who make those jobs low-wage and temporary by nature.
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