Letters to the Editor: Sept. 8, 2011

Trade restrictions will not help underpaid Chinese workers Re: “America’s economic troubles are deep-seated,” From Readers, Sept. 6

Madeleine Soudee laments that China, India and Vietnam are “intensely competitive by ignoring human rights and using cheap labor, including unpaid prisoners.” I wonder if she is aware that the world’s largest unpaid work force is not in China but here in America, where U.S. inmates are forced to work for federal and state governments.