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*[[globalization]]
*[[illegal immigration]]
*[[Jobs Growth in the U.S.]]
*[[military-industrial complex]]
*[[prison-industrial complex]]
*[http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_14734427.shtml 16 February 2004]: "Jobs take center stage in Wisconsin primary" by Sue Kirchoff, ''USA Today'': "MANITOWOC (Wisconsin) -- This city got its name from the Chippewa word for 'place of the good spirit.' To mayor Kevin Crawford, it now signifies something else. ... 'You know what 'Manitowoc' means? It means, 'We're all getting laid off,'' says Crawford, blaming the local 9.2 percent unemployment rate on trade policies that he says encourage companies to wander the world for cheap labor and land."
*[http://www.startribune.com/stories/1069/4322056.html 16 February 2004]: "Outsourcing hits legal services" by Neal St. Anthony, ''Star Tribune'': "First it was the apparel workers -- the working class -- who saw their $10-an-hour jobs go overseas. ... More recently, the United States has started to export to India the $35,000-a-year customer-service center jobs from the likes of [[American Express Financial Advisors]] and $50,000 technical-support positions from IBM and ADC Telecommunications to India and elsewhere where educated, English-speaking workers are hired for a tenth of the cost to communicate with U.S. customers by phone and over the Internet. ... Now, six-figure lawyers and legal support staffs are starting to sweat."
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/17/opinion/17TUE3.html?th 17 February 2004]: "Political Timing, Outsourced," ''New York Times'' Op-Ed.*[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/15/eveningnews/main606478.shtml 15 March 2004]: "More U.S. Jobs Shipped Overseas," CBS News: "The economy is not producing nearly enough jobs to replace the ones that are being lost to a cheaper workforce overseas."