I got this from the right wing Marginal Revolution web site.
High-income Americans have lost much of their enthusiasm for free trade as they
perceive their own jobs threatened by white-collar workers in China, India and otonal
trade.
The poll shows that among Americans making more than $100,000 a year, support for
actively promoting more free trade collapsed from 57% to less than half that, 28%.
There were smaller drops, averaging less than 7 percentage points, in income brackets
below $70,000, where support for free trade was already weaker.
The same poll found that the share of Americans making more than $100,000 who want
the push toward free trade slowed or stopped altogether nearly doubled from 17% to
33%.
http://www.pipa.org/
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
