期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2007
卷号：4
页码：251-260
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：America has been, historically, the leading edge of much of the world¡¯s engineering and IT innovations.
However, with the current trends of Offshore Outsourcing high tech and high paying
employment, the questions arise: why go into these fields at all. Why involve yourself with the
rigorous academic requirements demanded of these disciplines; especially when one considers the
real possibility of being outsourced out of a job to offshore companies. As more and more high
paying American jobs are outsourced to foreign markets, we must start to recalculate the benefit/
cost ratios of no holes barred free trade practices. The current economic expansion, we are currently
experiencing, is a unique one. It has not created jobs; nor has it added to real wage growth.
This has not added to the overall American standard of economic life. The benefits of the expansion
have been skewed very favorably to corporate American.
