What happened to the great U.S. job machine? The role of trade and electronic offshoring.

The los of manufacturing piece of works and hundreds of thousands of service piece of works over the past few years, and the threat of the los of millions more to offshore outsourcing, is a clear call to our business and political leaders that our trade policies simply are not working. At the least, not in the national interest. (1)

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THE BUSINESS round of years recovery of the past hardly any years has been an unusual single In particular, payroll employment since the long tray of the 2001 recession has been remarkably weak compared with previous recessions--a point illustrated in figure 1 (2) The