Can we agree that jobs are not the problem with TPP?

[okaawhatever]

67. Yeah, that is part of the problem. There are too many moving pieces for the average journalist

or economist to pinpoint the exact cause of each increase or decline in jobs. That is why they commissioned the CBO to do a

Other economic studies have concluded the trade deal resulted in much smaller job losses or even a small net gain. The Congressional Budget Office surveyed all the major economic studies of NAFTA's effects in 2004 and concluded: "NAFTA had little or no impact on aggregate employment."

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/07/naftas-impact-on-employment/

From Carnegie Endowment for Peace:

NAFTA’s net effect on jobs in the United States has been minuscule, given the size of the U.S. economy and the importance of other trading partners. The best models to date suggest that NAFTA has caused either no net change in employment or a very small net gain of jobs.

Link to the Carnegie Report:
http://carnegieendowment.org/files/nafta1.pdf


From FactCheck.Org regarding the CBO report

Also in 2004, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service evaluated four studies on the subject, including the Carnegie Endowment’s, and said that "NAFTA had little or no impact on aggregate employment." It also concluded, contrary to Scott’s report, that "NAFTA did not cause the widening U.S. trade deficit with Mexico."
NAFTA critics often point to the loss of manufacturing jobs, which have declined by 3.1 million between Jan. 1994, when NAFTA was implemented, and January of this year. But total nonfarm employment, meanwhile, has increased by 25.6 million in the same time period.

Link to the CBO report

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/34486.pdf

From NPR:

— NAFTA has more than tripled trade among the three countries, sending the total value above the $1 trillion threshold by 2011. Canada is the leading market for U.S. exports, while Mexico ranks No. 2. Together, the two countries account for about a third of all U.S. exports.

— North America has become one integrated market for the production of advanced goods, such as cars, planes and electronics. So when you are buying a vehicle assembled in Canada, it contains lots of made-in-America parts.

— The real advantage for the United States has been in services. American exports of services to Canada and Mexico tripled from $27 billion in 1993 to $82 billion in 2011, resulting in a trade surplus of roughly $30 billion.

http://www.npr.org/2013/12/08/249079453/economists-toast-20-years-of-nafta-critics-sit-out-the-party

BTW the non-profit who did the highly questionable report was EPI, Economic Policy Institute. Just a heads up in case you see them quoted somewhere. The right wing Pete Peterson Economic Institute did a biased report also. That one just had a right wing slant.