NAFTA AT SEVEN

by The Economic Policy Institute Friday, May. 18, 2001 at 6:24 PM

Directly refuting the corporate media spin, NAFTA AT SEVEN provides a devastating picture of the results of NAFTA, which again refute the neoliberal orthodoxy and show the devastating effects of so-called "free trade agreements" on the citizens of all countries involved: Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

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NAFTA at Seven
Economic Policy Institute Announces 3-Country Report
      By Robert Scott, Carlos Salas, Bruce Campbell and Jeff Faux (Introduction).
  Directly refuting the corporate media spin, NAFTA AT SEVEN offers an evaluation of NAFTA on its seventh anniversary. The study finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased insecurity, and rising inequality. This press release highlights the key findings of the study in a condensed format.
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PRESS RELEASE

NEW REPORT SHOWS NAFTA HAS HARMED WORKERS IN ALL THREE COUNTRIES

An evaluation of NAFTA on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased insecurity, and rising inequality

Washington, D.C.

www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/nafta01/index.html

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