USA Today Gets Numbers Seriously Wrong in Pushing Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trashing Unions

USA Today got its numbers seriously wrong in pushing the case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Its editorial told readers:

"Democrats, however, are wedded to unions who blame trade, and trade agreements, for the decline in manufacturing jobs.

"Theirs is a simplistic view that ignores the fact that manufacturing output has nearly doubled since the late 1990s, showing that technology is the real job killer."

It's USA Today, not the unions, who are being simplistic here. The data they ar...