<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/oppose-the-trans-pacific_b_10280518.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/oppose-the-trans-pacific_b_10280518.html</a><div><br></div><div><h1 class="" style="margin:0px 10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:ProximaNovaCond-Extrabld,NotoKufiArabic-Bold,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:-0.02em;max-width:900px;word-wrap:break-word"><font size="4">Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Protect Public Health</font></h1></div><div><div class="" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:630px;min-width:initial;width:630px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:27px">Co-authored by Ellen Shaffer, Joe Brenner, Joshua Yang, Donald Zeigler</p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:630px;min-width:initial;width:630px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:27px">The U.S. electorate is massively opposed, across the political spectrum, to the proposed Trans Pacific Partnerhsip (TPP). Hatched during the market triumphalism of the 1980s, modern era trade agreements like the TPP have contributed to the most lopsided inequality in income distribution since the Great Depression. They created the commercial and legal framework for outsourcing living-wage jobs, escalating the prices of critical medicines, and assigning corporate privileges globally that undermine national and local government laws and regulations on<strong style="">climate and the environment, labor standards and occupational safety and health, controls on tobacco, alcohol and obesogenic foods and beverages, and privatizing services</strong> such as health, education, social services, water, and corrections.</p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:630px;min-width:initial;width:630px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:27px">The TPP would continue and extend these policies, which significantly undermine the social and economic determinants of the public’s health. In fact, even the<a href="https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4607.pdf" target="_hplink" style="color:rgb(46,112,97)"> recent analysis</a> by the usually complacent International Trade Commission concedes that the TPP would add virtually nothing to U.S. economic growth, while further eroding jobs in 16 out of 25 U.S. economic sectors in agriculture, manufacturing, and services. Public health must not collude with efforts to resuscitate the TPP.</p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;max-width:630px;min-width:initial;width:630px;line-height:1.5em;font-family:NotoNashkArabic,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:27px">Two recent high profile statements attempt to drum up support for the unpopular TPP based on a faulty analysis of provisions that greatly concern public health: tobacco control, and access to medicines.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:27px">continued at:<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/oppose-the-trans-pacific_b_10280518.html"> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/oppose-the-trans-pacific_b_10280518.html</span></a></p></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr. Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH</div><div dir="ltr">Asst. Clinical Professor, UCSF<br>Co-Director, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health/CPATH<br>P.O. Box 29586<br>San Francisco, CA 94129-0586<br>Phone 415-922-6204<br><a href="http://www.cpath.org/" target="_blank">www.cpath.org</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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