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Research into the effect of Chinese imports on U.S. employment has been widely misinterpreted to imply that the United States has gotten a raw deal from trade with China.
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Douglas A. Irwin, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016
Taking food from the mouths of needy kids in order to serve migrants always seemed like a raw deal.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
Is this a legit new source of funds or another bad idea doomed to sour into a raw deal?
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
McCourt says everyday netizens have gotten a raw deal, exchanging the totality of their privacy for a free app or online service.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
Beltrán certainly got a raw deal, and was made to pay the price in his first year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2023, garnering just 46.5% of the vote.
—Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
Yet paradoxically—and much less remarked upon—American society also gives stay-at-home parents a raw deal, ignoring them in policy and providing little material or cultural support while using them as a political cudgel.
—Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
If workers got a raw deal out of the bailout, then so did the planet.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
That struggling working-class whites are able to pursue a better life does not mean that elites have not handed them a raw deal.
—Natan Ehrenreich, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
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Douglas A. Irwin, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016
Taking food from the mouths of needy kids in order to serve migrants always seemed like a raw deal.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2024
Is this a legit new source of funds or another bad idea doomed to sour into a raw deal?
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
McCourt says everyday netizens have gotten a raw deal, exchanging the totality of their privacy for a free app or online service.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
Beltrán certainly got a raw deal, and was made to pay the price in his first year on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2023, garnering just 46.5% of the vote.
—Jesse Yomtov, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
Yet paradoxically—and much less remarked upon—American society also gives stay-at-home parents a raw deal, ignoring them in policy and providing little material or cultural support while using them as a political cudgel.
—Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2024
If workers got a raw deal out of the bailout, then so did the planet.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
That struggling working-class whites are able to pursue a better life does not mean that elites have not handed them a raw deal.
—Natan Ehrenreich, National Review, 16 Aug. 2023
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“A raw deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20raw%20deal. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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