“And while upgrading the education levels of American workers will
improve their ability to adapt to the global economy, a better education
alone won’t necessarily protect them from growing competition…In other
words, free trade may well grow the world-wide economic pie — but
there’s no law that says workers in the United States will continue to
get a bigger and bigger slice.”
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“This doesn’t mean however that we should just throw up our hands and
tell workers to fend for themselves…I am optimistic about the
long-term prospects for the U.S. economy, and the ability of U.S.
workers to compete in a free trade environment — but only if we
distribute the costs and benefits of globalization more fairly across
the population.”
Barack Obama?
David Sirota?
Gosh darn, its so hard to tell them apart!
Seriously though, Barack Obama.
#1 is Bob Reich, #2 is Barack Obama? 2 sounds like Obama’s tone. Maybe #1 is Krugman.
Amazingly neither of these are googleable. And neither Obama book has SITB enabled at Amazon.
Duh. Audacity of Hope, pp. 174-6. Author, Barack Obama.
Sirota lazy or dishonest?
Ross,
I’m going to go with butthole.