and effectiveness of trade adjustment assistance. Most economists agree that protecting workers from the negative … consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement is appropriate, since we believe that a measure is unambiguously good only … when some benefit, but no one is hurt. Even if trade liberalization is only a minor source of job loss, when many workers …

-related industries have driven growth in the manufacturing sector, production has shifted to Asia, and the U.S. trade deficit in these …