Off-shoring is affecting the U.S. economy greatly. Off-shoring is taking away jobs from the American people causing a rise in the unemployment rates. Not only is off-shoring taking away jobs, but it is making it harder to find new jobs. It needs to be considered that jobs are not the only thing being shipped out, but Americans' personal information as well.
Off-shore outsourcing is when a company sends work overseas. One main reason is to cut costs and save a certain amount of money by paying less in wages. Off-shoring has become more common since the 1990's. What would a person do if his job was taken away and given to someone else in another country? The most common jobs that are outsourced are manufacturing jobs but many corporations are now moving white collar jobs, mostly Information Technology (IT) jobs, overseas. This is causing the value of the American IT Employee to depreciate and making it harder to compete for these jobs. Universities are starting to train around......
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