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Jonathan J. Higuera
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 23, 2004 12:00 AM
Arizona's economy added nearly 9,000 jobs in December, closing the chapter on the state's best year of job growth since 2000, but still far below the amount needed to keep many prospective workers gainfully employed.

Economists are cautiously optimistic that 2004 will see slightly better gains.

'The state's economy is growing, but not fast enough to accommodate the amount of people looking for a job,' said Don Wehbey, senior economist for the state Department of Economic Security."

 
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PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

JANUARY 22, 2004
Thick as a (Campaign) Plank

U.S. Leaders Either Don't Understand or Prefer Not to Understand the IT Outsourcing Crisis, So Here's the Cliff Notes Version
By Robert X. Cringely

Last year, I wrote a pair of columns on information technology outsourcing to countries like India, suggesting that the practice was generally not a good idea. It was a smokescreen for age discrimination, and was not in the long-term interests of either the American employees or their companies. Then in my 2004 predictions column, I said that this outsourcing or offshoring or whatever you want to call it would become an issue in the coming Presidential election.

Now, I'm taking this opportunity to frame the debate more fully because, frankly, I hate to be wrong.

 
Telstra under fire over outsourcing jobs: "Telstra under fire over outsourcing jobs
Friday January 23, 1:10 pm ET
By Stephen Wyatt in Sydney
Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications carrier, is coming under heavy political fire over outsourcing IT jobs from Australia to India.
The controversy, stirred by the renegotiation of a contract with IBM for software maintenance and service as part of a cost-cutting drive, may even have an impact on plans for a sell-of the government's stake in the carrier.
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IBM said the work needed to be carried out by both its Indian and Australian operations, which places at risk 450 Australian IT jobs, in order for IBM to remain competitive."

 
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Economist.com | Offshoring

THE debate over “offshoring”, a phenomenon unheard of a few years ago by many of those now loudly proclaiming its economic effects, is in “the percolating phase,” says Brink Lindsey of the Cato Institute, a Washington, DC, think-tank. It could, he adds, be “a potentially potent contributor” to the increasingly protectionist mood in the American capital.

 
Moving jobs abroad: More interest than ever from corporate America: "Moving jobs abroad: More interest than ever from corporate America
Wednesday January 21, 7:11 pm ET
By Bruce Meyerson, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 150 corporate executives, many paying $1,400 a head, listened intently for tips on how to move jobs overseas effectively. Outside, on a frigid Manhattan sidewalk, a group of fewer than 20 spirited demonstrators protested the 'offshore outsourcing' conference that opened Wednesday.

With the loss of jobs to other countries being thrust into the spotlight by a presidential campaign, the trend of moving white-collar positions overseas has grown so controversial that attendees from major corporations such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. declined to discuss the conference.
One speaker unexpectedly decided to bar the press from his presentation. His topic: Is offshore outsourcing unpatriotic?
'I'd prefer not to comment,' the speaker, Jeffrey Cohen of the big consulting firm McKinsey & Co., said when asked why the session had been closed."

 
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Yahoo! News - Demand For Engineers Rising Fast In U.S.: "Demand For Engineers Rising Fast In U.S.
Tue Jan 20,11:25 AM ET

By Brian Deagon
The National Science Board and a think tank of tech executives recently warned that the economic vitality of America is threatened by a lack of U.S. graduates in science and engineering.

Also, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says demand for science and engineering workers will increase three times faster than all job categories this decade. Eighty-six percent of those jobs - 2.2 million - will be in the computer field.
Yet unemployment in engineering occupations rose in the third quarter of 2003, say BLS data. The unemployment rate was 6.7%, up from 6.4% in the second quarter and five times higher than it was in 2000. "

 
Demand For Engineers Rising Fast In U.S.: "Demand For Engineers Rising Fast In U.S.
Tuesday January 20, 11:25 am ET
By Brian Deagon
The National Science Board and a think tank of tech executives recently warned that the economic vitality of America is threatened by a lack of U.S. graduates in science and engineering.
Also, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says demand for science and engineering workers will increase three times faster than all job categories this decade. Eighty-six percent of those jobs - 2.2 million - will be in the computer field.
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Yet unemployment in engineering occupations rose in the third quarter of 2003, say BLS data. The unemployment rate was 6.7%, up from 6.4% in the second quarter and five times higher than it was in 2000.
George McClure, chairman of career and work force policy at the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, says there are several reasons for the disparity.
For starters, the BLS was wrong the last time it projected job demand for engineers. The BLS updates its job forecast every two years. The last time it made projections, 'it was way off,' said McClure. 'Their crystal ball isn't much better than the rest of ours.'
To be sure, these are still tough times in tech. Despite the recent increase in U.S. employment overall, the tech industry is still losing jobs - down 3.9% in November. "

 
Few Signs Of Recovery (washingtonpost.com): "Few Signs Of Recovery
Cleveland's Job Market Seems Stuck Despite Economists' Data
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 14, 2004; Page E01
CLEVELAND -- The news of economic recovery has reached the gritty corner of Detroit Avenue and West 69th Street, through newspapers and television broadcasts, through commentators from Wall Street and the pronouncements of President Bush.


But as she surveys her beaten-down block, a regional manager of a temporary employment agency, who will identify herself only as Michele, can muster just a wan smile and a hope that the data being churned out by economists will soon mean something here. "

 
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