The unemployment rate continues to increasenot decreasein these communities. These many thousands in my district are unemployed because this Nation failed to define an industrial policy that offered a careful. coordinated program to rebuild industry and put people back to work. The rise in unemployment in this Nation is not a story of undocumented people taking the jobs away from citizens. Rather. unemployment is the result of two decades of imports rising faster than exports. corporations taking their profits to lowwage nations abroad. and longterm planning taking a back seat to shortrange gains. In the last two decades. imports of electrical components rose from 1 to 20 percent. imports of apparel items rose from 2 to 41 percent. imports of metal cutting machine tools rose from 3 to 31 percent. imports of cars rose from 4 to 28 percent. and imports of consumer electronic products rose from 6 to 95 percent.
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