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Kirsten Gillibrand: “The reason why a lot of manufacturing went to China is…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Published | Video Starts at 03:56

But the cost of that is higher costs. The cost is you will be asking working people to pay much more for something they used to get at a very low rate. The reason why a lot of manufacturing went to China is because they out competed our domestic manufacturers. It was when you're paying people zero wages and you have no safety measures and no rules of what the workplace has to be like, you can produce things at a very, very low weight. (03:56–04:03)

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Asserts that manufacturing moved to China due to competitive advantages over U.S. manufacturers.

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