EPI Report Claims US-China Trade Deficit Cost 3.4 Million Jobs
February 09, 2017 at 13:43 PM EST
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute finds, "Due to the trade deficit with China 3.4 million jobs were lost between 2001 and 2015, including 1.3 million jobs lost since the first year of the Great Recession in 2008. Nearly three-fourths (74.3%) of the jobs lost between 2001 and 2015 were in manufacturing (2.6 million manufacturing jobs displaced). read more