A simple question on the TPP

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49. Because I've read their data tables and you clearly haven't

Unemployment went down after NAFTA
Discouraged worker rates went down after NAFTA
Wages at all quintiles went up after NAFTA
Income at all quintiles went up after NAFTA
Wages and income went up more in the 20 years after NAFTA than the 20 years before it.

Why alleged Democrats consider that outcome bad I have no idea; I suppose it's an obsession with manufacturing as the only "real" kind of employment.

I notice you still can't answer: what's a single metric by which workers are worse off today then in 1993?

Seriously, just name one. I'll even give you a hint that there are a couple.

How hard is it to just look up a number which you are certain exists and post it? I've posted all kinds of numbers about this in multiple threads: unemployment, labor participation, median wages, median incomes, wages at quintiles, income at quintiles... all better than 1993 and all improved more in the two decades after NAFTA than the two before it. Can you post just one set of numbers that got worse? Like I said there are some; just find them, then we'll at least both be actually arguing a point.

A segment of DU is very emotionally invested in painting a distopian picture of America that doesn't correspond to any measurable reality.