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Mark Pocan: “NAFTA is kind of the big one I think that most people point…”

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 08:52

If you have a Chronic large trade deficit. You get de industrialized and you get income inequality. This is not a surprise. And it can be fixed, but it's what we've suffered. And NAFTA is kind of the big one I think that most people point to is, you know, what started the decline. Can you just tell us a little bit about what that was and why that gets often referenced? (08:52–08:59)

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Asserts that NAFTA is widely considered the starting point of economic decline.

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