COMMENTARY: Where have America's good-paying jobs gone?

In September, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with Senate Republicans killed the vote on Senate Bill 3816, a bill which would have ended tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs to foreign countries only to import foreign-made products back to the United States.
Since the early '80s, our nation's good-paying jobs have been outsourced to foreign nations in a steady stream. Around 1983, manufacturing was the first industry to go. Nationally, the Council on Foreign Relation estimates that since 1983, two million manufacturing jobs have been moved offshore.



America has been losing good-paying jobs at an alarming rate. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates 30 percent to 40 percent of all white-collar jobs such as architects, research scientists, engineers, chemists and product development will be outsourced over the next five years.


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