Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

I think that in reality, the benefits that we have to come up with to get skilled workers or entry-level workers are a burden on our profits in the first place.

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.