Look Who’s Going Offshore: “Although the tech sector accounts for about 5% of U.S. payrolls, or 6.5 million workers, it generated 13% of the new jobs created from 1996 to 2001. Over the next five years, Mark M. Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com Inc., expects tech to contribute 7% of the country’s new jobs. ‘Entire occupational groups can be outsourced at the flick of a computer key,’ says former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, now a professor at Brandeis University.”

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