Sherrod Brown Quotes
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
Brown, Sherrod. Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed. The New Press, 2004, p. 12.
This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.
His prediction was accurate and the consequence was an increase in the production of agricultural products and a shrinking proportion of Americans employed in farming and ranching.
The good jobs that support middle and upper middle class lifestyles are growing at a lesser rate than the minimum and low wage jobs.
Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.
Sherrod Campbell Brown is an American politician, educator, and academic serving as the senior United States Senator from Ohio, a seat to which he was first elected in 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th Secretary of State of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. He started his political career in 1975 as an Ohio State Representative.