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    "parsed_content": "As a horrified world watches the upending of an economic order that has brought it stability and prosperity for decades, the question I hear in country after country is the same: Why is the United States, the nation that has flourished so mightily under this system, tearing it down?When I explain that many Americans \u2014 including the president \u2014 believe America has been the victim of this free trade system, the response is bewilderment. \u201cHow can you not see what is blindingly obvious: that you are the big winner,\u201d one senior foreign official said to me.President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have shaped this narrative with great success. Even those who oppose Trump tend to concede that although the richest Americans and biggest companies have succeeded in recent decades, most Americans have seen their incomes stagnate, jobs get shipped overseas and standards of living decline.But none of this tells the right story. Massive changes in public policy that are transforming the world are being made based on a series of assumptions that are anecdotes, exaggerations and lies.Follow Trump\u2019s second termFollowThe basic number to keep in mind is median income. \u201cAverage\u201d income is less revealing because the incomes of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (who owns The Post) raise that average. Median income is the income of the American in the middle of the income distribution: Half of the country makes more, half makes less.The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development\u2019s measure of median disposable household income in America was higher than in all but one advanced industrial economy as of 2021 \u2014 higher than Switzerland, Germany, Britain and Japan. The exception is tiny Luxembourg. In fact, America\u2019s median disposable household income is about double that of Japan.And as Noah Smith points out in an excellent essay, America\u2019s median income has not been stagnant, as conventional wisdom tells us; it has been growing briskly over the decades. Smith notes that real median personal income has risen by 50 percent since the 1970s. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, are up substantially since the 1990s. And the hourly wages of the bottom third of Americans are up by even more: over 40 percent.There have no doubt been disruptions over these past decades. That\u2019s the nature of capitalism. David Autor and others have described a \u201cChina shock,\u201d in which about 2 million jobs were lost between 1999 and 2011 as a result of China\u2019s rise in manufacturing prowess. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently inflated that number to 3.7 million. An essay for the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute contests that number entirely and casts doubt on even the lower figures in Autor\u2019s research.But the main point is that the churn in the American labor market is huge. These days, on average about 30 million Americans in the private sector lose their jobs annually, and a similar number gain jobs every year. During the years of the China shock, the United States actually gained more than 2 million jobs overall. And these were not low-paying jobs in fast food.Look at Flint, Michigan, and Greensboro, North Carolina \u2014 often seen as classic towns that were devastated by the loss of manufacturing. Over the past two and a half decades, real wage growth for the poorest is up more than 40 percent in Flint and over 26 percent in Greensboro.These are not anecdotes. The Brookings Institution in 2018 looked at 185 urban industrial counties that had lots of manufacturing jobs in 1970 and discovered that 115 had managed to transition from manufacturing, improving residents\u2019 well-being. Only 14 of these industrial communities could still be defined as \u201cvulnerable.\u201d Remember, unemployment in the United States has been close to a 50-year low for more than three years now.In an economy as large and diverse as the United States, there will always be places that are struggling. Part of what makes this a more pressing problem is that Americans now rarely move from places where the economy has collapsed in search of better prospects. As Yoni Appelbaum notes in his book \u201cStuck,\u201d Americans used to be highly mobile, always searching for better opportunities. But in recent decades, they have stayed put, hoping that better economic prospects would come to them.Appelbaum notes a striking statistic about the 2016 presidential race: \u201cAmong white voters who had moved more than two hours from their hometown, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a solid six-point lead. Those living within a two-hour drive, though, backed Trump by nine points. And those who had never left their hometown supported him by a remarkable twenty-six points.\u201dThese numbers paint a different picture of the nature of America\u2019s political turmoil. Change and disruption \u2014 caused by capitalism, globalization, technology or, crucially, a changing culture \u2014 have produced enormous anxiety among many. There are those who find these anxieties unbearable and want the world to return to what it once was. But \u2014 with or without tariffs \u2014 it won\u2019t.",
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    "ai_simplified_title": "America Debates Trade Success Amidst MAGA Narrative",
    "ai_excerpt": "The article examines the narrative that America has been harmed by free trade, challenging this view with data on median income and wage growth. It argues that despite disruptions, the US economy has generally prospered, and that anxieties about change fuel political divisions.",
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