Politicians Keep Promising Free Trade Agreements Can Protect Workers. We Should Stop Believing Them.
It’s all the rage now for Republican presidential candidates to spurn the Royal Romney approach and, instead, to fawn over workers. When former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum announced his presidential bid last week, he did it from a factory floor and called for increasing the minimum wage. Former New York Gov. George Pataki, who also launched his candidacy …
