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Barack Obama: “That wasn't a problem of globalization per se, that was a…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Leadership, Democracy, and AI at Hamilton College

Published | Video Starts at 1:07:47

… cheap flat screen TVs and I'm glad that the stock market is booming, but I was laid off my factory job. We did not take care of those folks. But That wasn't a problem of globalization per se, that was a failure of policy here in the United States to help that. We didn't do enough to help people who weren't benefiting from globalization. And that was a failure globally and a failure here in the United States. That's going to need to be fixed. (1:07:47–1:07:56)

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Asserts that the failure to support workers was due to U.S. policy, not globalization itself.

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