Exports create excellent jobs and more stable businesses. Careful research by Carnegie Mellon University reveals that exporters are more productive, pay better wages and benefits, and invest more in training than their non-exporting counterparts. In truth, most were doing this before they started exporting. Exporting is what healthy firms do. But the act of exporting does, by itself, seem to confer a longer life on the firm, and faster employment growth - effects that are just as important to the community as they are to the employer.
Free trade is a return on decades of American investment.
The U.S. has perhaps been the primary beneficiary of increased global trade. Some argue that this is only right, that the U.S. made huge investments to win the Cold War and create a global climate of free markets and democracy. To put up walls now would be to waste generations of sacrifice. Kids need choices and a chance to excel. When asked, most parents say they want their children to have better jobs than they.