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American Betrayal, Sponsored By Intel

By Isaiah J. Poole
May 19, 2010

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U.S. Stimulus Helping Chinese, Spanish Wind Energy Industries

By Natasha Chart
November 3, 2009

Wind energy is supposed to be able to create thousands of manufacturing jobs, but unfortunately the early wind energy manufacturing jobs financed by U.S. more »

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The U.S. and India: Trading Jobs For Problems

By Eric Lotke
June 17, 2009

A high powered business summit shows how a government can take the side of its people.

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Economic Terrorism

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March 27, 2009
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Companies Avoid U.S. Pay Standards, Outsourcing Jobs

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 7, 2008

For every dollar an American manufacturing worker is paid, a worker in Mexico is paid 12 cents and one in Hong Kong makes just 24 cents.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Private Corporations Control Our Nation's War Endeavors

Submitted by Alexander Sewell
September 26, 2008

Seventy percent of the intelligence budget now goes to contractors. Private corporate interests control our nation’s most sensitive information and help direct our most critical foreign policy decisions.

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Manufacturing Sector Takes a Big Hit

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
July 17, 2008

The manufacturing sector has been hit hard by current foreign trade policies with 3.4 million jobs—one out of every five manufacturing jobs—shipped overseas over the past seven years. Under the current trade agreements, as many as 40 million more jobs will be at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

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Martin Crutsinger, "Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000," Associated Press. 20 April 2008. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1
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44% said they believe the U.S. government could do a lot to prevent jobs from moving overseas if it really tried.

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Daniel Yankelovich, “The Tipping Points,” Foreign Affairs May/June 2006. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85309/daniel-yankelovich/the-tipping-points.html

52% of Americans believe it is unrealistic to think that the government can do anything to stop corporations from sending jobs abroad.

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Daniel Yankelovich, “The Tipping Points,” Foreign Affairs May/June 2006. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060501faessay85309/daniel-yankelovich/the-tipping-points.html

The public rates protecting American jobs as nearly as important as defending the country against terrorism (86% terrorism, 84% jobs).

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“Opinion Leaders Turn Cautious, Public Looks Homeward: America’s Place in the World,” The Pew Research Center for People and the Press, 17 November 2005. http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1020
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