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This infographic says it all: Greedy corporations sitting on trillions in cash, while U.S. jobs are being shipped overseas.
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You may have seen T-Mobile’s “Alter Ego” ad where a stylish young women in a big city luxury high-rise trades her chic designer party dress and high-fashion footwear for motorcycle leathers and boots. T-Mobile has an alter ego, too—job killer. This parody commercial from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) spells that out.
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Check out this fun—and true—graphic from Bob Fertik—and pass it on. (Follow Bob on Twitter @BobFertik.)
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Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, The New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states:
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Is it patriotic to ship America’s jobs overseas? President Obama doesn’t think so. He’s right, of course. We live in a globally connected world, but let’s face it: Home-grown corporations must first focus on their own back yards—a novel concept all to many, it seems.
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Bill Redler of Omaha, Neb., knows both the hard times of the American construction worker today and the right way forward.
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Congress will soon consider three so-called free trade agreements (FTAs) between the United States and Korea, Colombia and Panama. Yet because these agreements do not include sufficient protections for workers, passage of these pacts would be a job-killing move at a time when more than 26 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work.
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Major corporations are lobbying heavily for a U.S. tax holiday on their foreign profits. These huge multi-nationals like IBM and Pfizer claim that if they are allowed to repatriate their overseas profits the tax cut—that some say would be as much as $80 billion—will be used to create jobs right here in the United States. Pass the salt shaker.
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In the global economic race, the United States is coming in second—and one of the major reasons is that we have stopped making things in this country. A recent poll shows the public thinks it’s going to be that way for awhile. Only one in five Americans say the U.S. economy is the world’s strongest. Nearly half (47 percent) say China’s economy is stronger and only one in three expects the United States to regain the top spot in the next 20 years. Nearly three-fifths of those surveyed say that increasing competition from lower-paid workers around the world will keep living standards for average Americans from growing as fast as they did in the past.
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