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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (159145)	8/29/2003 4:17:16 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Here is the best paper I know of. There are literally hundreds of papers available online to discuss the white collar jobs exodus phenomenon and I don't want to waste time doing a simple google search for you. But here is one very compelling document that you may not have otherwise seen, presented to congress by the IEEE. Unemployment among America’s engineers has spiked sharply upward from 2.0% in 2001 to 4.2% in 2002 to more than 6.0% in the first quarter of 2003. The unemployment problem is even worse for all electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor, unemployment among electrical and electronics engineers reached 7.0% in the first quarter of 2003. 6.5% of all computer hardware engineers and 7.5% of computer software engineers were also unemployed during the same period. These are unprecedented levels for each occupation. The current economic and employment problems we face are complex and interrelated. There are no easy answers or silver bullets in terms of public policy recommendations. But we do think that the continuing movement of manufacturing facilities and blue-collar jobs, and the growing willingness of major employers to move essential service functions and white collar jobs of all kinds to lower cost, offshore locations is a major contributing factor to our current unemployment crisis. cspo.org So we have unprecedented unemployment levels and an unemployment crisis, according to this guy. Sound like white collar employment is hunky-dory to you? I have no clue why you would want to argue something so obvious with me. I suspect it comes back to the Bush administration in some way.