Software programmers and other professionals hurt by outsourcing should get federal assistance, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday in a new position paper. Read the complete story at CNET News
Marcus Courtney, president at WashTech, praised Kerry: Today, the Kerry campaign has announced a real plan to ensure that America's best-paying, best-skilled jobs are kept in the U.S. A Kerry administration, unlike the current one, understands that America's white-collar workers are facing losing their jobs in today's global economy and is putting his words into action to increase the job security, wages and benefits for white-collar workers.
Karl Schoenberger wrote for the Mercury News today:
The Kerry-Edwards campaign issued a strongly worded statement Tuesday that condemned President Bush's response to high-tech jobs going overseas, and laid out the Democratic challengers' strategy to rein in offshoring. The Bush administration refuses to acknowledge the extent of the challenge facing America's innovation-intensive services, the document said. Kerry and Edwards have a plan to end Bush administration policies that actually promote outsourcing, it said.
The document cited a University of California-Berkeley study that warns as many as 14 million Americans hold jobs at risk of being outsourced. It also mentioned a Forrester Research report estimating 3.3 million service jobs will go offshore in the next 15 years, and a University of Illinois study that found the information-technology job market lost 400,000 positions from March 2001 to April 2004.
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