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During tonight's CBS Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump was the only candidate to address the news that Carrier will be sending hundreds of American jobs to Mexico. The GOP frontrunner said that under a President Trump, Carrier would stay and "build in the United States because we are killing ourselves with trade pacts that are no good for us and no good for our workers." Video footage emerged yesterday, which went viral, capturing the anger and heartache of 1,400 Indianapolis workers who were informed that they soon would be out of work, as their company will be sending their jobs...

NEW YORK — Chrysler Group LLC is planning to build the Fiat 500 small car at a plant in Mexico, according to a report published Monday. The automaker could also build an engine for the 500 at a plant in Trenton, Michigan, and is weighing building another compact car similar to the 500 in the U.S., according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter. Chrysler spokesman Gualberto Ranieri declined to comment Monday.

MEXICO CITY - During the Nov. 1 Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, most of the candles used in church altars were made with wax imported from China. A sizable part of the ''Viva Mexico'' baseball caps and Mexican flags sold on the streets were also made in China.It's not only happening in Mexico. Increasingly, China is eating Latin America's lunch. Low-cost Chinese goods -- textiles, shoes, toys and electronics -- are flooding Latin American markets and pushing many Latin American exports out of the U.S. and European markets.Last year, Mexico alone lost more than 250,000 jobs in the...

WASHINGTON - Laid-off factory worker Ruth Schumacher rises before the sun most days and earns $7 an hour tending the breakfast bar at a Holiday Inn in Celina, Ohio. She would like to set out a tip jar for the occasional dollar, but management forbids it. After work, she occasionally goes next door to shop at Wal-Mart or at Kmart one town away. "They've got real good bargains," she said of Wal-Mart, echoing a generation of thrifty shoppers. Never mind that Wal-Mart is a major reason Schumacher no longer has a $12-per-hour job at Huffy Corp.'s bicycle plant. Five years...