And most economists, including those advising Obama, still support the old consensus, that trade promotes the general well-being even if it causes certain industries and their workers harm.
Participants included health administrators, physicians, nurses, social workers, harm reduction specialists, and outreach workers.
Many on the left, for example, are calling for an extension of "trade-adjustment assistance", which provides funding for training and relocation to workers harmed by trade.
Under that provision, United States companies or workers harmed by imports from China can ask the government for protection simply by demonstrating that American producers have suffered a "market disruption" or have experienced a surge in imports from China.
Congressional Republicans (and some Democrats) are threatening to hold up approval of free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama if President Obama keeps insisting on renewing expanded benefits under Trade Adjustment Assistance, the main aid program for American workers harmed by foreign trade.
Other opponents say that the rapid push to $15 will result in greater unemployment for low-skilled workers, harming the very people the wage increase is meant to help, and will also overstretch the budgets of government agencies.
In addition there should be fast, real recompense to companies and workers harmed by unfair trade, and these payments should be financed by duties on the unfairly traded goods, so they would not increase the deficit.
President Obama should also call on the Congress to do a major overhaul of the U.S. trade laws, making them faster, more accessible, and more reliable tools for US companies and workers harmed by unfair trade.
They've engaged in intersectional movement building with labor, HIV, farm worker, harm reduction, anti-poverty, and LGBT rights movements.
In the past, for-profit home-care agencies have argued that labor protections for the workers would harm small business, while some states have argued that they would harm state budgets.
Rather than finding an intelligent and tireless robot in your office chair, expect the machines of the future to help workers, not harm them.
