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Bring Jobs Home and Protect Vulnerable Middle-Class Jobs from Offshoring

Jul 25, 2014

Over the last decade, 2.4 million jobs were shipped overseas and American taxpayers were asked to foot the bill.  The Bring Jobs Home Act ends taxpayer write-offs that subsidize moving costs when companies ship jobs abroad.  Roughly 21.5 million jobs are vulnerable to offshoring, endangering our economic growth.   Below is a DPCC projection for jobs at risk of being offshored:

State

Jobs at Risk of Offshoring

Alabama

343,200

Alaska

44,500

Arizona

366,700

Arkansas

204,000

California

2.3 million

Colorado

335,300

Connecticut

256,500

Delaware

61,900

District of Columbia

79,500

Florida

1.1 million

Georgia

652,000

Guam

8,000

Hawaii

72,300

Idaho

96,400

Illinois

961,600

Indiana

544,700

Iowa

269,600

Kansas

228,400

Kentucky

323,500

Louisiana

278,000

Maine

88,500

Maryland

351,100

Massachusetts

484,600

Michigan

737,500

Minnesota

459,500

Mississippi

186,700

Missouri

439,200

Montana

58,100

Nebraska

161,300

Nevada

148,800

New Hampshire

106,300

New Jersey

588,000

New Mexico

102,400

New York

1.3 million

North Carolina

666,800

North Dakota

58,700

Ohio

920,300

Oklahoma

255,700

Oregon

256,100

Pennsylvania

918,400

Puerto Rico

155,700

Rhode Island

72,400

South Carolina

329,200

South Dakota

65,900

Tennessee

476,300

Texas

1.7 million

Utah

212,200

Vermont

45,100

Virgin Islands

4,900

Virginia

542,800

Washington

432,100

West Virginia

101,600

Wisconsin

520,500

Wyoming

33,500

Total

21.5 million


Economists Alan Blinder and Alan Krueger have estimated that roughly one quarter of American jobs are potentially offshorable (meaning the work can be moved abroad) with significant variations from that average across occupations. "At risk" jobs are those that are susceptible to being moved abroad because of the nature of the work duties. DPCC Calculations based on Blinder and Krueger estimates of the risk of offshorability for occupations in management, business and financial services, computer and mathematical, sales and related, office and administrative support, and production (manufacturing).  [Blinder and Krueger, 8/09; BLS, 5/13]

 

By: DPCC