Amid all the squabbling in Washington, there is one policy many Democrats and Republicans agree on — free trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
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2011
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2011
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The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday.
2010
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There aren’t many Fortune 500 executives on President Obama’s good-guys list these days, but retiring Caterpillar chairman Jim Owens makes the cut. Caterpillar manufactures things instead of practicing financial wizardry. It moves mud rather than spills oil. More to the point: The iconic Peoria company produces the kind of well-paid manufacturing jobs that a recession-weary nation sorely needs.
