Keith Wheeler’s Wheeler’s Wisdom | OPINION, March 20, 2017

March 20 2017 - 8:00pm
Aussie jobs should be nation’s number one
Aussie jobs should be nation’s number one

RECENT American research shows that three million of the once 17 million manufacturing jobs in the US were lost after America cut trade barriers to China in 2000 at the end of Bill Clinton’s Democrat presidency. The group most affected were white males in less skilled jobs. Suicide rates jumped 3.5 per cent in counties most affected by China-related job losses, and drug related deaths rose 24 per cent. These manufacturing counties recorded the biggest swings to Trump.

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