One of the main points of implementing of NAFTA was growth of the job market in the U.S. In the article of the United States Chamber of Commerce NAFTA Triumphant: Assessing Two Decades Of Gains In Trade, Growth and Jobs stated, “U.S manufacturers, which added more than 800,000 jobs in the four years after NAFTA entered into force”. In this statement what it is initially telling you is that NAFTA is doing what it’s supposed to do as to create jobs in the U.S. It sounded good but in reality this article by Chamber of Commerce is deceiving because it was written in 2012. Meaning that after 1998 job growth especially manufacturing has become stagnant or erode. Many manufacturing companies have promise if NAFTA was approved there will a job …show more content…
In the article from The Huffington Post NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S jobs Lost Higher Income Inequality By Lori Wallch states, “Specific promises made by U.S corporations like GE, Chrysler and Caterpillar to create specific number of American jobs if NAFTA was approved”. Statements like this tell the reader that NAFTA will help to create jobs especially high paying manufacturing jobs that people want. However, in reality it has not come to fruition as written in the same article of NAFTA at 20, “reveal government data showing that instead, they fired U.S. workers and moved operation to Mexico”(Wallch). After reading this statement it makes you wonder if NAFTA was meant to improve the job market to workers or to increased profits to companies, investors and management. It may have created jobs but mostly the jobs went to another country in NAFTA agreement. Some will say that if jobs went to Mexico but the company is based in the U.S then is helping our economy to growth. In reality, NAFTA was supposed to create job in the U.S not in