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The NAFTA trade treaty. 850,000 jobs lost. Special trade status with China. 3 million jobs lost. Now the Trans-Pacific trade deal could cost America 448,000 more jobs. Only one candidate for president has opposed every disastrous deal. Bernie Sanders. While others supported unfair trade deals, Bernie stood with American workers. He'll take on Wall Street and their trade deals because he doesn't take their money. For jobs. For us. Bernie. I'm Bernie Sanders and I approve this message.
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This ad from the Bernie Sanders campaign claims the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade deal, "could cost America 448,000 more jobs." PolitiFact notes that economists disagree strongly about the affect of trade agreements on jobs, and rates the statement as "Half True." The ad has aired widely in Ohio.

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PolitiFact: Bernie Sanders says TPP will eliminate 448,000 United States jobs
March 23, 2016

Sanders’ ad said that the Trans-Pacific Partnership “could cost America 448,000 more jobs.”

Our experts accused each other of cherry-picking the data that best suited their ulterior motives. We’ve asked economists to sort out the good and bad of trade deals before , and found that their opinions on outcomes can be wildly contradictory. So when it comes to predicting such outcomes, it really depends on whose Magic 8 Ball you use.

Critics of the Tufts study said it goes the furthest to predict doomsday job-loss figures, without acknowledging offsetting effects. The author of the Tufts study said that other research glosses over the real-world elements that change the lives of workers in a global economy.

A one-liner can’t possibly capture the possible outcome of a War and Peace-sized trade proposal. We rated this statement Half True.

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