Ohio one of the leaders in jobs lost to NAFTA, report says

Source: The Plain Dealer

Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 6:53 PM

The North America Free Trade Agreement has cost the United States 683,000 jobs in less than two decades, and Ohio is one of the biggest losers, according to a report released Tuesday.

Ohio lost 34,900 jobs -- 0.6 percent of its total state employment -- through NAFTA, concludes the report by the Economic Policy Institute, a research and policy group in Washington, D.C.. That placed Ohio fourth among all states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico in terms of percentage of total jobs lost to NAFTA.

Michigan led in percentage of jobs lost, followed by Indiana. California was first in total number of jobs lost, followed by Texas.

The treaty among Canada, Mexico and the United States removed tariffs and other trade barriers in 1994. This created a $97.2 billion trade deficit with Mexico, said Robert E. Scott, the EPI economist who authored "Heading South: U.S.-Mexico trade and job displacement after NAFTA."

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/05/ohio_one_of_the_leaders_in_job.html

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the primary opponent of NAFTA in the House, Dennis Kucinich, gets redistricted out of his seat.

And moderate Democrats at DU are overjoyed at this happening.

Certainly jobs were lost, but jobs were gained, but the gains were not credited in this analysis.

NAFTA is the best job creation agreement ever.

About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps
May 3, 2011, 2:10 PM ET

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/03/about-1-in-7-americans-receive-food-stamps/

Mapping out hunger

The recession may be officially over, but one of the most worrisome effects of the weak economy remains: Tens of millions of Americans don’t have enough money for food.

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/05/04/6583488-mapping-out-hunger