In the period after the United States entered the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, nafta and granted China permanent normal trade relations. Paterson [New Jersey] then became one of the poorest cities in the United States. So the project that Hamilton began and that lasted about 200 years was undone by a US experiment in so called free trade, One that tied America's hands behind its … (02:55–04:20)
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Asserts that Paterson, New Jersey, became one of the poorest U.S. cities.
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