Where have all the US jobs gone? American corporations have shipped them overseas, to lower wage nations, to China, to India, to Vietnam. That’s what free trade treaties are negotiated to do, to push wages down, to redistribute income from the 99 to the 1 percent because the difference between the old, higher, US wages and the new, lower, third world wages increases corporate profits, while sending dividends and share prices higher, and straight into the pockets of the already rich.
Corporations, perhaps such as Nike, which has had problems with child labor in the past, are able to send or create jobs overseas thanks to corporate free trade treaties, by hiring contractors and sub-contractors over there, who then hire child labor.
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