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yallerdawg

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3. From the link:
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 12:50 PM
Sep 2016

"A separate overview of the evidence from the Congressional Research Service concluded that NAFTA "slightly increased growth in output and productivity” and "had little or no impact on aggregate employment.

"On some level, all this is obvious. NAFTA was enacted in January 1994 — a few years before one of the strongest economies in American history. It would be foolish to credit NAFTA with the ’90s economic boom, but it is yet more foolish to pretend NAFTA devastated the American economy given the fact that unemployment fell from 6.6 percent in January 1994 to 4.0 percent in January 2000."

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