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#  The Worst Trade Deal You Never Heard Of (Video Column)

February 02 2015

Written by Robert Reich.

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![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2015/010s.png)GUEST COMMENTARY-The Trans-Pacific Partnership, now headed to Congress, is a product of big corporations and Wall Street, seeking to circumvent regulations protecting workers, consumers, and the environment.

[Watch this video](http://robertreich.org/post/109593544790%20), and say “no” to fast-tracking this bad deal for the vast majority of Americans.

***(Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley* *and the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at [RobertReich.org](http://RobertReich.org).)***

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**CityWatch**

**Vol 13 Issue 10**

**Pub: Feb 3, 2015**

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