by Dean Baker | Jan 29, 2014 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
With the New Year the corporate lobbyists and the Obama administration are stepping up their drive for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the new trade deal being negotiated in secret by the United States and eleven countries in the Pacific region. The...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 27, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Today 564 organizations released a joint letter to Congress, opposing fast-track trade promotion authority. The organizations cover the entire field of what would be considered President Obama's "base" of supporters, including consumer, labor, environmental,...
by Richard Long | Jan 24, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, who has just coauthored a book that offers proposals for revitalizing American manufacturing, has added his voice to the broad coalition opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership and calling on Congress to not...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 24, 2014 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The “TPP,” or Trans-Pacific Partnership, is our nation’s newest proposed trade deal. It was negotiated without democratic input, and they’re trying to ram it through Congress the same way. Like NAFTA before it, the TPP would kill jobs. It would also cause lasting harm...
by Guest Writer | Jan 23, 2014 | Economy, Trans-Pacific Partnership
By Ron Carver Many hundreds of thousands of Americans saw their good working-class jobs disappear once NAFTA took effect. And millions of Mexicans lost their ability to live off the land after cheap factory farmed corn from the United States displaced their crops in...
by Joshua Holland | Jan 9, 2014 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fool Me Once: 20 Years of NAFTA Show Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Must be Stopped (via Moyers & Company) The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations...
