http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/opinion/how-trade-deals-have-hurt-american-workers.html 2016-10-10 10:25:52 How Trade Deals Have Hurt American Workers A member of Congress describes how Ohioans have suffered and the president of the Economic Policy Institute offers an economist’s perspective. === To the Editor: “ As a United States representative from Ohio who fought against enactment of the As I write this, steelworkers in Lorain face pink slips due to Chinese imports. School supply workers in Sandusky, Mr. Coffee workers in Cleveland and LG Phillips workers in Ottawa saw their jobs outsourced to Mexico. Many people have moved away. Our communities work to create new enterprise, but the downdraft of job outsourcing to penny-wage places coupled with a deluge of unchecked imports remains severe, quashing economic growth. America needs a new trade model, with a fundamental principle of “free trade among free people.” MARCY KAPTUR Toledo, Ohio The writer represents the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio. To the Editor: “More Jobs, but Not for Everyone” notes that many economists failed to anticipate the hit to middle-class wages and employment that accompanied globalization. However, not every economist ignored what the economic theory actually says. After all, economics always showed that non-college-educated workers would lose out on trade as output shifted to more capital-intensive and skill-intensive goods. The title of my colleague Josh Bivens’s book says it all: “Everybody Wins, Except for Most of Us: What Economics Teaches About Globalization Moreover, this same group favored policies that undercut wages — using monetary policy to limit wage growth, and opposing minimum wage increases and strong labor unions — exacerbating our problems. Only now, as the effects of globalization are being made clear politically, are people coming around to what some economists have known all along. LAWRENCE MISHEL President Economic Policy Institute Washington