Are There Jobs That Can't Be Outsourced? [View All]

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Introduction

With the unemployment rate stuck above 9 percent for 16 months, and likely to remain that way into next year, new college graduates and those laid-off in the recession will not have good news for a while.

What's left of manufacturing is moving overseas, including green industries. Construction jobs have dried up. And even in sectors that require highly skilled labor like technology and lawyering, jobs are increasingly outsourced to China or India.

If so many kinds of jobs are being moved or cut, what skills should American workers develop that will have staying power? Is there any sector that can't easily be outsourced? Or is this less a question of skills development but rather a question of labor policies and employment structure in the U.S.?

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/13/are-there-jobs-that-cant-be-outsourced?hp