<b>"Something more than cyclical forces is weighing on the American
jobs machine...with absolute declines in manufacturing
jobs and distressing declines in capacity growth rates. These trends
may be critically important in understanding the dismal performance of
US labor markets. If they are in fact critical, they raise serious
questions about US trade policy - questions that few in Washington want
to address. Given the extent to which manufacturing capacity has
already been offshored, those questions go far beyond the recently
announced tiny shift in Chinese currency policy. Simply put, accepting
the importance of manufacturing capacity and the possibility that
offshoring has had a much more deleterious impact on the US economy than
commonly accepted would require a significant paradigm shift in the
thinking of US policymakers."<br><br></b><a href="http://www.roubini.com/us-monitor/259178/why_is_the_american_jobs_machine_broken_">http://www.roubini.com/us-monitor/259178/why_is_the_american_jobs_machine_broken_</a><b><br clear="all">
</b><br>-- <br>Tim Robertson, Director<br>California Fair Trade Coalition<br><br>2017 Mission St., Suite 200<br>San Francisco, CA 94110<br>(415)255-7291(o)<br>(415)987-4870(c)<br><br>The California Fair Trade Coalition is a pro-trade, pro-democracy coalition of labor, immigrant rights, environmental, faith, family farm and women's interests working towards a balanced approach to international trade. Our goal is to reform U.S. trade policy and to promote economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment. <br>