Trade & Manufacturing

U.S. trade policy under the Bush administration has failed in almost every important dimension. It has failed to create good jobs and healthy communities at home. It has failed to foster equitable, democratic and sustainable development abroad. It has failed to safeguard our long-term national security interests. And it has utterly failed to ensure that American producers and workers are able to compete successfully in the global economy. Millions of middle class-sustaining manufacturing jobs have disappeared as corporations have shipped operations overseas to take advantage of low wages and little regard for workers' rights.

Of the 2008 presidential candidates, who agrees and has solutions planned? And who remains a proponent of unbalanced trade rather than fair trade?