Offshoring

Why Is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

Tim Robertson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Offshoring, Internet Freedom, Free Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Financial Regulation, Cispa, Politics News

The only way the corporate shopping list that is the TPP can get past public scrutiny is if no one ever hears about it. Fortunately, activists are fighting back.

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Smart Manufacturing Key to American Innovation

Eric D. Isaacs | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Offshoring, Council-on-Competitiveness, Global Economy, Apple Iphone, Apple Ipad, Apple, New York Times, Innovation, China, Manufacturing Jobs, American Manufacturing, Apple China, Technology News

Something is very wrong when good jobs go overseas because American corporations can't find enough qualified Americans to fill them here.

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OUT: Outsourcing. IN: Insourcing.

Scott Paul | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Insourcing, U.S. Manufacturing, Reshoring, Offshoring, Made in America, Manufacturing Jobs, Offshoring Jobs, Business News

Insourcing. That's at the top of my trending list for 2012. But, how do we make reshoring -- bringing jobs back from overseas -- real?

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Who Protects Info You Give to Offshored Call Centers?

Dave Johnson | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Data Protection, Jobs, Offshoring, Call-Centers, Business News

Companies are always looking for ways to reduce the number of people they employ, and for ways to reduce the pay and benefits for the ones they keep. ...

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Why is There a Lack of Skilled Workers With Such High Unemployment?

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Offshoring, Baby Boomers Retiring, Poor Image of Manufacturing Careers, Lack of Skilled Workers, Advanced Manufacturing, Business News

We have lost more than 5.5 million manufacturing jobs in the past decade, and over 57,000 manufacturing companies have gone out of business.

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Obama's Free Trade Sleight of Hand

Tim Robertson | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: US Economy, Offshoring, Unemployment, Panama Trade Agreement, Colombia Free Trade, South Korea, Korus, Free Trade, Jobs, Fair Trade, Manufacturing Jobs, Politics News

Obama is ignoring growing opposition from his Democratic base and voters across the political spectrum to resurrect policies Congress has refused to approve for over four years. And to get his message across, he's using every trick in the book.

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The Global Tax Dodgers: Why President Obama and Congress Lack Job Creation Plans

William Lazonick | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Jobs, Obama, Offshoring, Tax Policy, Business News

The U.S. economy is an autocratic corporate economy in which the CEOs of major corporations must take the lead in investing in innovation and job creation for a jobs plan to have a significant and sustainable impact.

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Inconsequential Washington

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Jobs, Offshoring, Economic Stimulus, Value-Added-Tax, Campaign, Politics News

Announcing his candidacy for president, Governor Rick Perry promised: "I'll work every day to make Washington as inconsequential in your life as I ca...

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Business Roundtable Celebrates Strengthened GOP Support On Trade Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Offshoring, Trade, Colombia, Economy, Panama, Blunt, Jobs, Free Trade, Offshore Tax Havens, Obama, Corporate Taxes, Portman, Korea, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of top CEOs celebrated Friday as a group of 12 Republican senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama announcing support fo...

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Serious About Governing

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Taxes, General Electric, Offshoring, Intellectual Property, Corporations, Exports, Willie Sutton, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, China, Politics News

President Obama is not serious about creating jobs. Practicing free trade against controlled capitalism in globalization is like playing touch football against tackle football.

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Blame It All on Globalization 3.0

John M. Eger | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Offshoring, Globalization, Innovation, Education Reform, Arts Education, Education News

Globalization 3.0, first coined by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, is here. Outsourcing and offshoring have entered our lexicon of new words.

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Brazil Unions Flex Muscles as Obama Afterglow Fades

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strike, Dilma, Afl Cio, Meadowlands, Brazil, Lula, Obama, Forca Sindical, Afl, Russia, China, Offshoring, Nearhshoring, Outsourcing, Jimmy Hoffa, Bill Clinton, World News

Neither foreign investment nor its own political class have narrowed the gap between haves and have nots that remains deeply embedded in the structure of Brazil´s society.

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U.S. Manufacturing 'Red Hot'? Dream On

Ian Fletcher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Trade Deficit, Manufacturing, Offshoring, Trade Deficit, Foreign Debt, Manufacturing Jobs, Business News

Forget raw-materials exports saving us. That idea drowns in the ocean of foreign crude oil we suck in every year--which causes us to run a deficit, not a surplus, in this sector.

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Corporations and the State of the Union

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Offshoring, Medical Malpractice, Oil, Obama, Korea Free Trade Agreement, State of the Union, Nuclear Power, Business News

The president's SOTU had good broad themes, but there were many sources of concern in the speech as well. In too many cases, there was a disconnect between those positive themes and troubling policy proposals.

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Free Trade Doesn't Work: Interview With Economist Ian Fletcher

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, India, Free Trade Agreements, Offshoring, Global Economics, Trade Deficit, Economic Policy, Economics, Free Trade, Tariffs, Manufacturing, Protectionism, China, Manufacturing Jobs, Business, International, World, Business News

Free trade doesn't work, the global economy is a myth and the U.S. has been duped during trade negotiations for the past 40 years according to Ian Fletcher, author of Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why.

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Obama Trade Policy Perils: Korea FTA Talks Resume Tomorrow

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Offshoring, Financial Reform, Free Trade, Congress, Obama, G-20, Business, Nafta, Investor-State, Outsourcing, Elections, Politics, Labor, Polling, Corporations, Korea, Market Access, Foreign Investment, Business News

Recent polling has shown that perhaps the one issue that unites Americans across diverse demographics is opposition to more-of-the-same trade policy. The elections confirmed this.

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The Conservative Pledge to Encourage Big Companies to Send Jobs Away

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Taxes, Offshoring, Conservative Pledge, Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, Taxpayer Protection Pledge, Politics News

The lobbying organization Americans for Tax Reform, as part of the conservative movement's strategy to destabilize government, gets conservative politicians to sign a pledge to "solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases."

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Erie, PA Town Hall: "No Country Ever Went Broke Investing in Its Own People"

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Manufacturing, Jobs, Town Hall, Offshoring, Erie, Business News

I recently spoke with a Tea Party member who did not know that it is government that builds the roads, airports, sewer systems, etc. that make up the infrastructure that is the foundation of our country's ability to have companies at all.

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Polls, Research Show Dems Can Win Talking Trade (GOP too)

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polls, Offshoring, NBC News, Public Citizen, 2010 Elections, Economy, James Carville, Jobs, Free Trade, Democratic Party, Democrats, Wall Street Journal, Outsourcing, Stan Greenberg, Midterm Elections, South Korea, Colombia, Trade, Voters, Panama, Made in America, Citizen's United v. FEC, Democracy Corps, Tea Party, Republican Party, Global Trade Watch, Republicans, Elections 2010, Politics News

Recent polling shows that anger about U.S. job-offshoring and "free trade" has become a powerful election issue nationwide - across stunningly diverse...

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My Entrepreneurial Passion: Bringing Jobs Back To Rural America

Christopher Hytry Derrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Jobs, Offshoring, Entrepreneurship, Rural America Onshore Outsourcing, Rural America, Small Business America, Onshoring, Business News

Entrepreneurs thrive in an environment of high risk. Face it, failure rates are high. Half of new technology-oriented firms die within five years. Lau...

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CBO Director Trashes Bush Tax Cuts

Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Income, Taxes, Outsourcing, Immigration Reform, Doug Elmendorf, Offshoring, Outsourcing Bill, Government Funding, Corporate Personhood, Congressional Budget Office, Bush Tax Cuts, Business News

Testifying before the Senate Budget Committee yesterday, CBO director Doug Elmendorf destroyed the case for an extension of the Bush tax cuts in gener...

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Bill To Tax Firms That Offshore Jobs Fails

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Offshoring Tax, Taxes, Offshoring, Outsourcing Tax, Senate, Multinational Corporations, Chuck Grassley, November Election, Dick Durbin, Jobs, Harry Reid, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday blocked tax legislation that would have punished U.S. firms that export jobs. But the political symbolism of ...

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The U.S. Cities Most Vulnerable To Having Their Jobs Shipped Overseas: Richard Florida

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Offshoring, Alan Blinder, Sioux Falls, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Martin Prosperity Institute, San Antonio, Jobs, Omaha, Atlanta, South Dakota, Kansas City, Outsourcing, Mckinsey, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Cities, Dallas, Business News

Traditionally, the United States has worried about the offshoring of manufacturing jobs. But concern is mounting that as the rest of the world becomes...

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Corporate America Offshoring More Jobs in Economic Crisis

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting America Back to Work, Offshoring, Whirlpool, Utility Workers Union of America, Afl-Cio, Financial Crisis, Stewart Acuff, Corporate Greed, Uwua, Politics News

How long will America force its own people into poverty just to pad the pockets of those who make more in a day than we could spend in a lifetime?

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A Tax Trick That Forces Companies to Close Factories

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tax Trick, Offshoring, Tax Havens, Business News

By allowing tax loopholes to exist, Congress forces companies to use them. The word you hear is "encourages" but really, in a competitive environment, loopholes force tax evasion.

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