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Economists find China killing US factory jobs

Published Fri, Jun 19, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Washington

A GENERATION of economists trained to believe that trade had little to do with the long decline in high-paying US factory jobs is changing its mind.

Their findings are likely to fuel the opposition within President Barack Obama's own Democratic Party to his proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership and similar pacts lowering barriers to international commerce.

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