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Sanders overshoots on NAFTA job losses

"Trump’s trade policy is a disaster. Here’s what the next president should do."

Mostly False

"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
— Bernie Sanders on Sunday, March 6th, 2016 in the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.

By Jon Greenberg on Monday, March 7th, 2016 at 3:02 p.m.

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Our ruling

Sanders said that NAFTA, which Clinton used to support, cost the U.S. economy 800,000 jobs. There is a report from a left-leaning policy group that reached that conclusion. On the other hand, many other nonpartisan reports found that the trade deal produced neither significant job losses nor job gains. This is a result of competing economic models and the challenges of teasing out the effects of NAFTA from everything else that has taken place in the economy.

The report Sanders cited is an outlier, and his use of its findings ignores important facts that would give a different impression. We rate his statement Mostly False.

Editor's note: Soon after we published, we heard from Robert Scott of EPI and added his comments.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/07/bernie-sanders/sanders-overshoots-nafta-job-losses/