#154 - Has Globalization Undermined the American Working Class?

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This Episode Originally Aired on August 3rd, 2018 MOTION: Globalization Has Undermined America's Working Class Globalization ushered in an era of free trade, fluid borders, and unparalleled corporate profits. For its proponents, the global integration of states and their economies was a political and economic win that created a wealth of opportunities for workers and consumers around the world. But in the United States, jobs are disappearing. From construction zones to clerical offices to coal mines, the American working class is losing ground. Is globalization to blame? Did the push toward global integration leave our most vulnerable populations behind, making them the losers of this grand experiment? Or is globalization being used as a scapegoat for a wider range of failed public policies and unprecedented advances in technology? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	And in this episode, we are returning to a topic that is central to both presidential
0:39.6	candidates' platforms, namely whether globalization is good for American workers. In 2018,
0:47.2	President Trump scrapped NAFTA and met with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to negotiate a new
0:52.5	plan, now known as the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.
0:56.8	The President argues this plan will protect intellectual property and give American workers
1:01.1	a leg up in the global economy.
1:03.3	Congress approved the plan earlier this year.
1:05.6	Likewise, the Biden made in all of America plan will push for legislation to strengthen
1:10.8	workers' power to negotiate
1:12.5	higher wages and better benefits while investing in American produced goods and services with
1:17.5	the goal of bringing production back from overseas. And in the face of coronavirus, could these
1:22.9	plans be helped or hindered by a global pandemic? Two years ago, four debaters took to our stage
1:29.3	at the Aspen Ideas Festival to debate the motion,
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