President Obama spoke at the White House on Wednesday about ways to increase U.S. employment. According to recent reports, American manufacturers are hiring again, but a new generation of blue-collar workers are being paid as much as $15 an hour less than current hourly employees. "During the Congressional debates over the North American Free Trade Agreement, permanent normal trade relations with China and other ‘free trade' agreements, corporate America and its representatives told us how beneficial these deals would be for the American worker. Some of us never believed those arguments. Now the results are in," Sanders wrote in The New York Times. "The time is now to rethink our disastrous trade policies. The time is now to prevent the pauperization of America's working class," Sanders said.