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Common Dreams reports:
In yet another reminder of how corporate-friendly the Trump administration has been—despite campaign pledges to defend American workers and "buy American, hire American" rhetoric—a new study out [April 25] reveals that the president continues to reward U.S. companies who ship jobs overseas.
According to the analysis (pdf), conducted by Good Jobs Nation along with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, "the flow of federal contract awards to major offshorers has continued unabated since Trump's inauguration."
The outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is a major issue for American voters, and helped propel President Donald Trump's victory in a number of economically distressed rust-belt states.
Despite this, as many as "56 percent of the top U.S. firms awarded the largest taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016 engage in offshoring", the report notes. Further, 41 of the top 100 federal contractors--which in 2016 received a combined $176 billion in taxpayer dollars--have shipped jobs overseas and "many continue to do so today".
[...] "Even though he's signed over 60 executive orders during his first 100 days, he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas", said Joseph Geevarghese, director of Good Jobs Nation.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:24PM
Looking at the phrase in the headline "Trump Rewards Companies Offshoring US Jobs," I'm really struck by how that phrase can be used to justify a particular point of view. As in "We don't want welfare, that rewards people for not working." It might be economically true that certain policy decisions provide an economic reward to people for particular actions, but that doesn't mean that the motivation of those making the policy is to reward these things. It almost sounds like any time one uses the word "reward" talking about politics, they are using it to help paint someone as a bad guy with no sense. To be sure I am inclined towards the view that Donald Trump actually is a bad guy with no sense, but I'm not sure he's intentionally trying to reward companies for exchanging US workers for non-US.
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