The Pitfalls of 'Buy American'

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Mon, 09/25/2017 - 9:00am to 10:00am
WHAT'S WRONG WITH BUY & HIRE AMERICAN?

This past April 2017 Donald Trump signed an executive order to Buy American and Hire American resurrecting an historically ineffective and divisive program to bring much need US industry jobs back to American workers. Denise Morris shares a collection of thoughts from Dana Frank on Buy American in a recent interview with Chris Brooks posted on labornotes.org  Dana Frank is a history professor at University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Buy American: The Untold story of Economic Nationalism.

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