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Mark Pocan: “In my district, when I go to Plain, Wisconsin, there's the…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Trade Policy and Tariffs with Laurie Wallach and Rohit Chopra

Published | Video Starts at 17:04

Yeah. And so in many ways we're still paying the price. Right. Of those, especially nafta, those initial trade deals. I mean, I think almost every small community In my district, when I go to Plain, Wisconsin, there's the factory outside where 150 or 200 people used to work at. But it's been gone for decades. excuse me, decades now. And what they have left is, you know, either agriculture as a business, which is tough, or home based businesses and, you know, they don't even have broadband sometimes. (17:04–17:13)

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