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On the recordMarch 16, 2015
The fact is if exports create jobs, imports take them away. That is why the change in our trade policy that began in the late 1980s has accompanied the total destruction of the American middle class.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman criticizes trade policies for harming American jobs and the middle class.

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