American Jobs being Outsourced

part I

part II



While America has lost 1 million jobs since 2001, employers have been outsourcing hundreds of thousand of jobs to other countries in order to lower their costs. And they've moved millions more to low-cost contractors in the U.S. that provide services on the cheap by paying low wages and providing few or no benefits to employees. Not only is the Bush Administration not helping the workers and families devastated by these job losses, they think outsourcing is a "good thing" and "a plus for the economy." But workers, families, and communities who've felt the effects of outsourcing know better.

"It's really hurting the American people . . . . They are strip-mining society."

- Mark Olesen, former software engineer, Austin, TX

"My value as a human being was taken away from me. What is going to happen to all these people who are losing their jobs?"

- Jeraldean Evans, outsourced programmer, Oakland, CA

This is not about "us" versus "them." Workers in every country deserve jobs with good pay and benefits and safe working conditions. But the current outsourcing and offshoring trends in the U.S. are hollowing out companies and our economy. These trends are producing greater income disparity, declining opportunity, and growing insecurity for U.S. workers and their families.