by Lori Wallach | Feb 4, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Corporate interests were fiercely lobbying for President Obama to dedicate serious time in this State of the Union speech to pushing fast track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in order to try to overcome growing congressional and public opposition to both, but...
by Robert Scott | Feb 3, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama said that because “ninety-eight percent of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with Europe and the Asia-Pacific will help them create more jobs.” This suggests that small businesses will benefit...
by Clyde Prestowitz | Jan 31, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In his State of the Union message, President Obama suggested apprenticeships, tax reductions on new investments, and building new infrastructure as ways to increase jobs and reduce inequality in America. But he said virtually nothing about what is probably the single...
by Celeste Drake | Jan 31, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
For more than 20 years (including in Tuesday night's State of the Union address), America’s workers have heard that we need new trade agreements so we can export more and create jobs. It’s a great theory. It’s just that—because of the way our trade deals are...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 30, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama cited a plan to promote "manufacturing hubs" in Tuesday's State of the Union address as one of the ways he would use his executive power to get around the Republican strategy of obstruction and sabotaging the economy. On manufacturing, the president...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 29, 2014 | Populist Majority, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Two big developments are following quickly behind President Obama's soft-pedaling in his State of the Union address of his administration's attempt to fast-track a seriously damaging Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty through Congress. The most consequential action...
