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63% believe international trade has “made things worse” for the U.S. and causes job loss and low wages.

Fortune magazine poll, January 14-16 2008. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/electionpoll/2008/pollresults.html

81% of voters gave the government a C, D, or F in its handling of outsourcing.

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

87% of voters are concerned about outsourcing.

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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

40 million US Jobs are Offshorable

Submitted by Eran Lillestrand (not verified)

March 14, 2008

An estimated 40 million U.S. jobs are potentially offshorable, including scientists and mathematicians, telephone operators and typists

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Alan S. Blinder, “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?” CEPS Working Paper No. 142, March 2007. http://www.princeton.edu/~ceps/workingpapers/142blinder.pdf

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Telecommunication Research Moving Overseas

Submitted by Eran Lillestrand (not verified)

March 14, 2008

Most research initiatives by the U.S. telecom industry now take place in foreign countries.

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“An analysis of 57 recent major research initiatives of the U.S. telecommunications industry showed that all but five were located outside the U.S.” See Jeff Faux, “Globalization that Works for Working Americans,” EPI Briefing Paper #179, 11 January 2007. http://www.sharedprosperity.org/bp179.html

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Manufacturing Sector Losing Jobs

Submitted by Eran Lillestrand (not verified)

March 14, 2008

The manufacturing sector has lost 3.4 million jobs – one out of every six manufacturing jobs – since 2000, the worst decline since the demobilization after World War II. Many of these jobs have gone overseas.

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U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Archived News Releases for Employment Situation. http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm; See also: Robert E. Scott. “Manufacturing Job Loss: Productivity is Not the Culprit.” Economic Policy Institute. February 2007. http://www.epi.org/content.cfm?id=2626; See also: Martin Crutsinger, “Factory Jobs: 3 Million Lost Since 2000” Associated Press, 20 April 2007. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OKGR480&show_article=1