NAFTA at 20: lost jobs, economic instability, income inequality, and uncontrolled corporate power

Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch has issued a new report, NAFTA at 20: One Million US Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws. The report compares the promises with which NAFTA was sold with the results we can measure 20 years later.

NAFTA was not just a “trade” agreement. Trade agreements focus on cutting tariffs and easing quotas and barriers to goods moving across borders. The report points out that NAFTA was much more, giving corporations special rights, incentivizing offshoring and limiting regulation. As the report puts it:

http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/02/that-sucking-sound-nafta-turns-20/