Job OutsourcingJob OutsourcingThe economy is one of the most varied topics on the political frontier that is constantly debated, though there is no obvious solution to the United States perpetual economic problems. Held within the crumbling economy of today, are many ongoing controversial issues that plague our once healthy nation. One such problem is job outsourcing, an issue with many schools of thought giving the topic its controversial nature.
The exportation of jobs offshore is job outsourcing. This, to some, is believed to be a benefit to our economy. According to a brief report from the National Center for Policy Analysis, “Increased economic globalization has caused jobs to move to the United States as well as away from it, and because of the higher, increasing productivity of American workers, the jobs that move here pay more than the ones that leave”. In addition, the report stated an increase in product availability, stronger demand for United States jobs, competitive gains for small businesses and a rising standard of living as a benefit from outsourcing. A common detail among sources on job outsourcing was, those who are laid off commonly received higher paying jobs than previous jobs. “Over the past 15 years, corporations report an eighty-two percent increase in in-sourced jobs compared to a twenty-three percent increase in outsourced jobs.”
The problems of outsourcing are it has immediate and constant affect on the unemployment rate, rising at a rate that shows no sign of slowing. The fact is it directly correlates to existing jobs of the United States, and their removal, creating progressively more jobless Americans than ever before. Though in the very distant future we can reap the benefits of that outsourcing, largely, Americans have no jobs and often in this lazy economy, go without for months on end. This just hurts our current economy, creating more struggles and causing less spending, which is needed to get out of the current economic despair. Outsourcing is a way for greedy corporations to make more profits, lay off more workers who have seniority
The Wall Street Journal reports:
“The U.S. has done nothing to curb the outsourcing of jobs for the American people.
The average annual wage in the United States has fallen 13.0 percentage points since 2007, more than double the rate of the same period since 1980, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research report.
The report says that at least 4.8 million workers have lost their jobs for no apparent reason (including many of the thousands who lost the equivalent of their salary to pay for their college fees) – half of them low-skilled, working part time for a few years.
Most recently, the White House has blocked job cuts of up to 50 percent for “highly skilled workers” in the private-sector, which can include the private sector’s “national security specialists” like Defense and Homeland Security.
The National Retail Federation, one of the nation’s largest and the first group of non-profits devoted to promoting the benefits of the government regulation of a low-cost retail sector, says there is “a clear trend of Americans going about their daily lives in a lower income bracket, especially given the economy is in a tailspin, and the real estate market is crashing down and people are having to buy condos – just to survive.”
There has been quite a bit of talk about what we already know, from our current government, and how it might be best to take some action. To ensure that the American Jobs Act becomes law, the Administration must get to the core policy issues from which the new law will be most useful, and put that policy into action.
The President can use executive action to enact policies that have the support of all Americans, so long as they are clearly targeted and address the underlying problems of America’s low-income workers. In other words, while there are certainly issues that need to be addressed, they are far less urgent and that the government needs to take this action that it knows it can implement.
In this case government action would have a huge impact on low-income families, especially those with older kids who currently find themselves unemployed. It would also have no impact on the rest of us who work.
Some of you have pointed out the importance of these issues, but they are not the issues that make good government work. As we know, when employers have the strength to provide high-quality jobs in a low-wage or substandard economy, we are right. When employers have the talent to provide low-wage, lower-paying jobs, government must do its part to help them achieve the result we all desire.