US-China Trade Deficit—Culprit in US Unemployment
America’s unemployment situation makes the news month after month with analysts offering many reasons, spins, and interpretations of the data.

A machinist uses an industrial saw to cut a steel bar at a workshop IN Shanghai on Aug. 23. A recent paper by the Economic Policy Institute pins a lot of the blame for U.S. unemployment on the U.S. trade deficit with the Chinese state. Peter Parks/AFP/GettyImages
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