Economics 101.
Trade between the US and foreign countries have both positive and negative consequences. A positive effect of trade is the creation of jobs, but trade also destroys jobs. Increases in U.S. exports tend to create jobs in this country, while increases in imports tend to reduce jobs and for good reason. Imports displace goods that otherwise would have been made in the US by domestic workers.
Not only that but "free trade" agreements enable the displacement of Americans by foreign workers in the domestic workforce. Even if the jobs are maintained, it isn't necessarily citizens who get them. So you see a net reduction in jobs, and further reduction in the number of American citizens employed because of displacement by foreign workers.
That's funny!
but trade also destroys jobs.
Who trades more than the US? Who has a lower unemployment rate than the US? Maybe you can tell me how many jobs each $1 billion in imports destroys?
while increases in imports tend to reduce jobs and for good reason.
We import more than ever. We have more jobs than ever. The evidence doesn't seem to support your position. Maybe you have a source that does?
"Economics 101."
The success of our economy is entirely dependent on one thing......
"Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders ... our city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported," he said. "The same holds true for the nation." Bloomberg
cheap, illegal labor.