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The most discussed issue in the last election was the plight of the so-called white working class. The story goes that hardworking people had their jobs shipped to Mexico thanks to NAFTA. The second idea is that immigrants have stolen working-class jobs. The kicker is to blame the nation of China.

These ideas attempt to explain why the Rust Belt is idle, but they’re all wrong. Neither the Mexicans nor the Chinese stole those jobs. I did.

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