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Treat trade-displaced workers the same as any other displaced worker

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 26, p. 806. Written by Peter Navarro, Kent Lassman.

Treat trade-displaced workers the same as any other displaced worker

The document says “shouldWho acts: CongressHow: legislationIn: The Case for Free Trade · Kent Lassmanp. 806 in the PDF
What the document says

“Trade-displaced workers should be eligible for the same benefits for which anyone else is eligible, no more and no less.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 806

The essay says technological change displaces six times as many workers as trade does yet those workers get no special treatment, that funding for job training tends to find its way to union funds and left-leaning nonprofits, and that if such assistance must be expanded direct cash transfers are better because cash is the most flexible aid and treats people as adults.

What the document actually says

“Trade-displaced workers should be eligible for the same benefits for which anyone else is eligible, no more and no less.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 806
That sentence, in plain words

A worker who loses a job to trade should get the same help as anyone else.

What this is about

Some workers get extra help if trade cost them their job. Others get nothing. This essay says everyone should be treated the same.

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