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Alan Tonelson

Alan Tonelson is founder of the public policy blog RealityChek and author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards. He has worked on trade policy with the presidential campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders and President-elect Donald Trump and can be followed on Twitter @AlanTonelson.

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