2.  Transferring an organizational function/business function to another country › Reduce costs › Contracts › Risk management › Time › Staff/workers

3.  1980’s- US in a recession  Saw outsourcing as a return to profitability  1990’s- potential worker shortage › NAFTA signed- American firms began looking at Mexico as both a market for export and a potential center of production.

4.  EPA estimates that 40% of the mercury that sinks out of the air and lands in the USA comes from overseas.  Mercury emitted by power plants and factories Asia waft over to the USA and settles into the nation's lakes and streams  Dust from Africa's Sahara Desert blows west across the Atlantic Ocean and helps raise particle levels above federal health standards in Miami and other Southern cities.  Haze and ozone from factories, power plants and fires in Asia and Mexico infiltrate wilderness spots

5. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=1 6712

6.  Have pollution levels really decreased as a result of outsourcing?  Are our pollution levels lower than the countries we are supposedly outsourcing to?

7. http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/publica tions/energy_reviews_2005/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/charts/C11834_bars_ p31_coal_procon.gif

8. http://www.sightline.org/images/blog2006/dioxin-us-trends-chart-2000-2004

9. http://www.accf.org/images/Test399Fig8.gif

10. http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0706-china.html

11.  90% of jobs in the US require geographical proximity  TPI Inc., an outsourcing advisory firm, even reports that the total value of business process outsourcing deals in the United States fell by 32 percent in 2003.  Unemployment is decreasing

12. http://web.stratfor.com/images/europe/art/2_23_us_unemployment_rate_121.jpg

13.  Citing the work of Forrester Research Inc., a technology research firm, Bradley says, "Of the 2.7 million jobs lost over the past three years, only 300,000 have resulted from outsourcing." Job losses and job gains have always been a part of our history.

14. http://fixco1.com/manufactchart1ss.jpg

15.  Forrester Research estimates that 3.3 million white-collar jobs will move overseas by 2015- sounds like a lot right?  About 220,000 jobs a year  Total employment will be about 152 million  Outsourcing would affect less than 0.2% of the American population  Boston University Professor Nitin Joglekar has examined the effect of outsourcing on large financial firms and found that less than 20 percent of workers affected by outsourcing lose their jobs; the rest are repositioned within the firm

16.  Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that the economy is undergoing a structural transformation: › jobs are disappearing from old sectors (such as manufacturing) and being created in new ones (such as mortgage brokering). In all such transformations, the creation of new jobs lags behind the destruction of old ones

17. http://xcomputerman.com/pages/archives/2007/09/07/outsourcing/

18. http://global-themes.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/body-count- economist.gif

19. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba480/images/ba480fig1.gif 1990-2004

20. http://gavekal.com/forum3/attach.aspx/70/us%20wealth.bmp

21.  Is pollution really being outsourced? › Comes back to us  Are we really exporting our jobs? › New jobs created › Insourcing jobs

22.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005- 03-13-pollution-_x.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005- 03-13-pollution-_x.htm  http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay 83301-p10/daniel-w-drezner/the-outsourcing- bogeyman.html http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501faessay 83301-p10/daniel-w-drezner/the-outsourcing- bogeyman.html  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4113 http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4113  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing  http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/s how/373 http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/s how/373  http://www.mises.org/story/1248 http://www.mises.org/story/1248  http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0706- china.html http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0706- china.html