🌐 Imagine… Globalization That Works for Workers 🌐
💡 Imagined Endstate:
A future where trade doesn’t just move goods—it lifts people. A global economy built on fairness, shared prosperity, and labor rights—not exploitation and inequality.
📚 Source:
Scott, R. E., & McGrew, A. (2025, June). The U.S. approach to globalization has gone from bad to worse under Trump: How to construct a progressive policy agenda instead. Economic Policy Institute. Link.
💥 What’s the Big Deal:
This report lays it out plainly: decades of flawed U.S. trade policy—supercharged under the Trump administration—have gutted middle-class jobs, undermined labor rights, and left developing nations (including PI-SIDS) scrambling to compete in a rigged game🌎. Trade deals once sold as economic miracles have resulted in a race to the bottom for wages, environmental protections, and sovereignty.
The authors call for a progressive globalization agenda rooted in enforceable labor standards, worker-led development, climate justice, and transparency🧱. No more corporate-led trade tribunals. No more exporting inequality in the name of “growth.” For the Pacific, this matters deeply—global rules often dictate who gets to fish, build, or export, and at what cost.
For PI-SIDS and low-wage workers worldwide, fair trade must mean shared power, not just shared markets📦. It’s time for U.S. trade policy to stop breaking systems—and start building them.
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