Polls: NAFTA expansion/"fast track"

[MDOLAN <mdolan@citizen.org>]

  What Do the Polls Say About NAFTA and Fast Track?
  
  
  61% of Americans oppose "having Congress grant the President fast-track 
  authority".  Hart and Teeter for the Wall Street Journal/NBC, July 26-28 
  1997.
  
  
  57% of Americans oppose "new trade pacts with Latin American countries". 
  Wirthlin Worldwide for Bank of Boston*: November 1996.
  
  
  73% of Americans believe "labor and environmental issues should be 
  negotiated as part of trade agreements".   Wirthlin Worldwide for Bank of 
  Boston*: November 1996.
  
  
  51% percent of Americans believe "America's integration in global markets" 
  "mainly benefits multinational corporations at the expense of average 
  working families". Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, for the Democratic 
  Leadership Council* (DLC) July 1997.
  
  
  64% believe trade agreements between the U.S. and other nations cost more 
  jobs than they create. Greenberg Research for Campaign for America's 
  Future, November 1996.
  
  
  52% say their views toward free trade are less favorable than a year a ago 
  as the result of what they know about NAFTA and GATT. Wirthlin Worldwide 
  for Bank of Boston*: November 1996.
  
  
  64% of Americans believes world trade pulls down U.S. wages. Market 
  Strategies for the Committee for Free Trade and Economic Growth*, June 
  1996.
  
  
  32% of Americans believe NAFTA has had "more of a positive impact on the 
  United States than a negative impact". Wall Street Journal/NBC poll July 
  26-28 1997.
  
  Pro-Fast Track/NAFTA Organizations:
  
  86% of Americans support "fair trade". Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, 
  Inc. for the Democratic Leadership Council* (DLC) July 1997.
  
  
  65% of Americans believe American workers have not "received their fair 
  share of the financial  benefits created over the last few years by the 
  improved national economy". Gallup poll August 29, 1997.
  
  
  67% of Americans believe that the "jobs now being created in the United 
  States are mainly low paying jobs." Hart and Teeter for Wall Street 
  Journal/NBC, June 19-23, 1997.
  
  
  7% of Americans believe international trade agreements have "mostly gained 
  jobs". Source: Yankelovich for CNN-Time, April 1997.
  
  
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