away any time soon. A UC-Berkeley's Haas School of Business study noted
that close to 11 percent of all occupations in the U.S. are "vulnerable" to
outsourcing (Mieszkowski, 2003). Further, estimates show that outsourcing
is likely to be a continuing phenomenon, as Forrester Research estimates
that by 2015, the U.S. will lose 3.3 million jobs to outsourcing. Other
estimates are higher, as Researchers Ashok Deo Bardhan and Cynthia A. Kroll
at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at UC-Berkeley's
Haas School of Business suggest that 14 million U.S. jobs are in danger of
being outsourced (Mieszkowski, 2003).
To date, economic costs of outsourcing on the United States' economy
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