US-China Trade Deficit—Culprit in US UnemploymentAmerica’s unemployment situation makes the news month after month with analysts offering many reasons, spins, and interpretations of the data.Friends Read FreeSaveA 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)By Heide B. Malhotra9/26/2012Updated: 10/1/2015Print