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zIt
works both ways! The US ran a $60B surplus
in services trade in 2003 – it has grown every year since 1996
zEven
at its peak, in 2001, trade-related layoffs represented 0.6% of
unemployment
yFewer
than 200K jobs have shifted abroad in each of
the past 3 years, but 15M jobs have been lost in the
US in each recent year
zBLS
projects a US workforce of 165.3M in 2012; Forrester Research projects 3.3M
jobs outsourced by 2015
Worldwide sourcing