Top "US" Corporations Outsourced More Than 2.4 Million American Jobs Over the Last Decade
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning finds that 44 percent [4], a plurality, of Americans think the economy is getting worse, rather than staying the same or getting better. With unemployment hovering around 9.6 percent [5] while economic inequality is at levels not seensince the Depression [6], many Americans feel as if the economy is leaving them behind.The Wall Street Journal reports today that Corporate America certainly isn?t doing its part to help bring America out of its economic malaise. The paper surveyed employment data by some of the nation?s largest corporations ? General Electric, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Cisco, Intel, Stanley Works, Merck, United Technologies, and Oracle ? and found that they cut their workforces by 2.9 million people over the last decade while hiring 2.4 million people overseas [7].
The paper notes that this is actually a sharp reversal from trends in the late 1990s, when these major companies were creating more jobs in the United States th
