claim: "most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: nov 17, 2003 ... but unemployment began to rise early in 2001, and 2.4 million jobs were lost in  the domestic economy between march 2001 and october 2003 (bls 2003). ...  impact of trade, which is used here to calculate the employment content of trade,  is the difference between domestic exports and total imports.3 we ...
evidence_2: sep 6, 2016 ... twenty-three years later, scholars and policy makers often disagree about the  impact that nafta has had on economic growth and job generation in the ...  nearly 200,000 export-related jobs created annually by nafta pay an average  salary of 15% to 20% more than the jobs that were lost, according to a ...
evidence_3: dec 9, 2013 ... to be sure, there were some job gains along the border in service and retail  sectors resulting from increased trucking activity, but these gains are small in  relation to the loses, and are in lower paying occupations. the vast majority of  workers who lost jobs from nafta suffered a permanent loss of income.
evidence_4: oct 4, 2017 ... more than twenty years after its implementation, the north american free trade  agreement continues to spur debate over its impact on economic ... “china is at  the top of the list in terms of the employment impacts that we found since 2000,  with technology second, and nafta far less important,” he says.
evidence_5: apr 12, 2011 ... eight million jobs were lost in the great recession, and the labor and housing  markets remain painfully weak. even alan greenspan ... the most common  general studies are of environmental regulations, and these have consistently  failed to find significant negative employment effects. moreover, studies ...