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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Weakonomist, The. "Offshoring Vs Outsourcing | Weakonomi¢s." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Weakonomics //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">. Weakonomi¢s, 2012. Web. 07 Feb. 2012. <http://weakonomics.com/2010/11/29/offshoring-vs-outsourcing/>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Bonasia, J. "Offshoring, For Good Or Ill, Comes Of Age - Investors.com." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Business News - Financial News, Stock Market & Investing News - IBD - Investors.com //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">. 2 Dec. 2010. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://news.investors.com/Article/555510/201012021712/Offshoring-For-Good-Or-Ill-Comes-Of-Age-.htm>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Sherter, Alain. "Jobbed: How Offshoring Threatens Economic Recovery - CBS News." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment & World News - CBS News //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">. CBS Interactive Inc, 15 Dec. 2010. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-43549272/jobbed-how-offshoring-threatens-economic-recovery/?tag=bnetdomain>.

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**Slaves Taking Roman Jobs**
 * 1) All the hard work in Rome was done by mostly slaves.
 * 2) Some jobs the slaves took of Roman citizens were servants for the wealthy, working on farms, and cleaning the sewers.
 * 3) A result in the fall of Rome was military, social, economic, political, and Roman dependency of slaves.
 * 4) An average wealthy person would own about 400 slaves, for his house. Some wealthy people owned between 10,000 and 20,000 slaves.
 * 5) Since slaves took many lower class roman jobs the lower class needed money. The government spent most of their money on the lower class with grain, oil, and wine supply to Rome’s lower class.
 * 6) With the government helping mainly the lower class, they didn’t have enough money to support the military, which then caused no one in the military to fight.
 * 7) The government needed more money so they made the wealthy people who owned slaves pay taxes on them.

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=Offshoring and Outsourcing=
 * 1) Offshoring is when jobs are moved outside the country and/or moved out of the company. It is not always essentially out of the company though.
 * 2) Outsourcing is out of the company and not essentially out of the country.
 * 3) Companies outsource because it saves them money. It saves them money because foreigners will work longer hours, more productively, and for a smaller profit.
 * 4) A risk of outsourcing is businesses are overly positive. For example the costs of outsourcing are often misjudged, so then they run over budget.
 * 5) Outsourcing and offshoring can result in the loss of U.S. jobs.
 * 6) The T.V. show outsourced is a great example outsourcing. In this show an American leaves the U.S. and goes to India to work.
 * 7) Outsourcing and offshoring can increase customer service through call centers.
 * 8) 1.3 million jobs are expected to be lost by 2014 due to offshoring.
 * 9) When Obama traveled to Asia he took a stop in India. Where there is a great deed of outsourcing and offshoring he received a standing ovation in India’s parliament. Many Americans booed back in the U.S., while America’s jobs are heading to China and India.
 * 10) The loss of industry jobs will be 20 percent between 2010 and 2014.
 * 11) People offshore they can increase their profits while lower their workers’ wages and there is fewer government regulations and environmental protection requirements
 * 12) In 2007 the average wage per hour for a production worker in the U.S. was $24.59. While in Asia they can have production workers do the same labor for a lot less. These are the average hourly wages of production workers in the following countries, Sir Lanka ($0.61), Philippines ($1.10), Hong Kong ($5.78), Taiwan ($6.58), Israel ($13.91), Republic of Korea ($16.02), and Japan ($19.75).
 * 13) In 2005 average monthly wage for a production worker in China was $134 and there work week is 6 day unlike the U.S.’s 5 day work week.
 * 14) Insourcing is when businesses in other countries send people to work in the U.S. Some companies that do this are Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, and BMW assembly many of their automobiles in the U.S.
 * 15) A reason foreign companies put some of the jobs in the U.S. are the size of the U.S. market. Since WW2 the U.S. has been the largest economy in the world.
 * 16) U.S. workers will eventually need to start looking for jobs out of the country.

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=Questions to ask experts:=
 * 1) What effects do offshoring and outsourcing have on the American economy today?
 * 2) What are some ways the government is trying to solve the issue of offshoring and outsourcing?
 * 3) Companies when outsourcing underestimate the costs and sometimes go over budget. When these companies go over budget what are some of the effects?

=Expert Contacts:= > > = Email To and From Expert Contact: = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">To: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #555555; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: left;">alain.sherter@cbsinteractive.com <span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Dear Alain Sherter: <span style="color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Hello, my name is Adam Cameron and I am a seventh grader at Nagel Middle School in Cincinnati, Ohio. In our social studies class we are using information from today's issues, in the U.S. to help save Rome from falling. The topic my group has is outsourcing and offshoring. I have a few questions I would like to ask you. It would be very helpful if you could answer my questions. Thanks again for responding back to my teachers Tweet. = = <span style="color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Respectively yours, > Adam Cameron
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 * <span style="background-color: #fefefe; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Alain Sherter- CBS journalist <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">alain.sherter@cbsinteractive.com <span style="background-color: #fefefe; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What effects do offshoring and outsourcing have on the American economy today?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are some ways the government is trying to solve the issue of offshoring and outsourcing?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Companies when outsourcing underestimate the costs and sometimes go over budget. When these companies go over budget what are some of the effects?

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> From: <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #555555; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">alain.sherter@cbsinteractive.com Hi Adam--Nice to hear from you. You raise some excellent, and very important, questions. People have written entire books about just these subjects! But let me see if I can at least offer a few ideas to think about. > > 1. What effects do offshoring and outsourcing have on the American economy today? > > Basically, there are two answers to this question. The first one, which you hear a lot from big corporations, is that offshoring and outsourcing helps large U.S. companies make more money. Say there's a company that makes soccer balls. In the U.S., workers at the soccer ball factory might earn $10 an hour. But if you put that factory in China, India or another country where workers make only $2 an hour, then the company can save money on its production of soccer balls. That's good for you, me, and other other consumers here in the U.S. who might want to buy a soccer ball because it means that they're cheaper to buy. And if they're cheaper to buy, the company will sell more balls and make more money, which means they can hire more workers both in the U.S. and overseas. > > The second answer looks at things differently. It says: Wait a second, moving those soccer factory (or other) jobs to another country might make it cheaper for consumers at home to buy the things they want, but that means there are fewer jobs here in the U.S. That's obviously a big problem for workers here at home -- especially now, when it can be hard to find another job. But it's also a problem for the whole U.S. economy. Why? Because for the American economy to grow, people must have enough money to spend. If people spend (on whatever it is they want), companies can grow and hire more employees. > > The problem is that workers who lose their jobs have less money to spend on groceries, cars, soccer balls and other stuff. That makes the economy shrink, which hurts companies and forces them to get rid of workers. And that leads to what some people call a "vicious cycle" that basically works like this: Offshoring/outsourcing leads to > higher unemployment > lower consumer spending (because people have less money to spend on soccer balls and other stuff) > economy shrinks (because of lower spending) -> companies lose money -> companies get rid of workers -> higher unemployment. And so on. > > 2. What are some ways the government is trying to solve the issue of offshoring and outsourcing? > > That's a little hard to say, but I can tell you what my personal opinion is about that (other people have different opinions). For now, the government isn't doing much to deal with the impact of offshoring/outsourcing. The last government, under former President George Bush, didn't do much either. In fact, since offshoring/outsourcing really started to take off in the 1980s, no U.S. government has done much to control it. Why not? One reason is because, as I explained in replying to your first question, many people thought that offshoring/outsourcing would help companies grow and hire more people in America. Another reason -- and this, too, is my opinion -- is that big companies have a lot influence in Washington, where these decisions are made. So big companies helped elect politicians who they knew wouldn't do anything to prevent businesses from moving jobs outside the U.S. > > But there are some good ideas for dealing with the problems caused by offshoring/outsourcing. One might be to give companies a reason to keep jobs in the U.S. rather than moving them to another country. You can do that by lowering their taxes if they hire more people here at home. Another idea is for the government to offer financial support to companies that want to expand in the U.S. Some countries, like Germany, also try to specialize in making more advanced, specialized products (like robots). Because those products make a lot of money, the companies that make them can afford to hire more workers at home and even pay them a little more money, which also helps ensure that those products are good and keep selling. > > And here's an idea I really like -- it's called "work-sharing." That's where several people at a company share one job. Since I'm giving you lot of information, though, I'll just give you a link to an article I once wrote about work-sharing. You can read it if you want. > > @http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-43547043/how-work-sharing-can-help-businesses-boost-the-us-economy-and-save-jobs/?tag=bnetdomain > > 3. Companies when outsourcing underestimate the costs and sometimes go over budget. When these companies go over budget what are some of the effects? > > That depends on the company you're talking about, how it's run and what industry it's in. At some companies, going over budget can get an executive fired! Other companies might just increase their outsourcing budget. Generally, though, companies are willing to spend whatever it takes to move jobs overseas because of the large savings they expect to make. > > Hope this helps. Feel free to send me another email if you have other questions. > > Best, > Alain