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is, on account of free trade deals such as NAFTA, responsible for massive inequalities between rich and poor because trade led to downward pressure on wages and benefits for unskilled labor, with the top 20 percent of Americans taking home more wealth than they did twenty years ago, and the bottom 20 percent taking home less, all while net job losses ran in the hundreds of thousands for the United States and Mexico.

Moreover, the inequalities between rich and poor were exacerbatedduring the Clinton administration . Free trade has led to downward pressureon wages and benefits for unskilled labor, with the top 20 percent ofAmericans taking home more wealth than they did twenty years ago, and the bottom 20 percent taking home less (Benjamin... Scott). And it is increasinglydifficult for those bottom 20 percent to find employment because freetrade agreements such as NAFTA have produced net job losses in the hundredsof thousands for the United States and Mexico (Bacon 23-27... Scott).Such job losses tend to be in industries such as manufacturing, which cane more easily shipped abroad, leaving unskilled labor at an even greaterdisadvantage in a marketplace where they compete against a more skilledforeign workforce while also competing against migrant labor from othernation-states. While it has been clearly beneficial to some, free trade's tidehas not lifted all boats, including those in the United States.

is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

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