The Coming Crisis: White Collar Homelessness

This article discusses the problem that outsourcing has created for many families. Outsourcing is causing the unemployment rate to rise which is making well educated people lose their car, health insurance, and before long, their home. Labor Department reported that more jobs have been lost in the past 12 months than any other period since the government began keeping records in 1939.
http://homelessness.change.org/blog/view/the_coming_crisis_white_collar_homelessness

Some U.S. hospitals outsourcing work

This article discusses the fact that the United States' lack of radiologist along with the emerging demand for sophisticated scans to diagnose scores of ailments, they are being sent over to other countries to read and interpret the results. This is providing the patient with more accurate and faster results. About 500 hospitals now rely on 35 radiologist in Australia.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6621014/

White-Collar Blues

This article states that in 2000, one third of the jobs that were lost were white collar jobs. More that 2 million jobs were lost during the Bush administration. This article also discusses the report that forest research conducted, predicts from 2000 - 2015 the United States could lose 3 million jobs with the majority being white collar. In addition,one particularly ugly aspect to this new phenomenon is that U.S. companies are flying foreign workers over to America to have American workers train them and then send them back overseas to work.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/360/white_collar_blues/

Global Outsourcing of Engineering Jobs: Recent Trends and Possible Implications

Ron Hiras's testimony declared that the unemployment rate among American engineers has increased to 2.0% in 2001 to 4.2% in 2002 and over 6.0% in the just the first quarter of 2003. This problem is even worse for all electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers. He does believe that continuning to move manufaturing facilities and blue collar jobs, and the growing willingness of major employers to move essential services functions and white collar jobs of all kinds to lower cost, offshore locations is a major contributing factor to our current unemployment crisis.
http://cspo.org

Great American Dream or Nightmare? U.S. Troubles Ahead From Outsourcing White Collar Jobs to Overseas

Gary A. Cain, who has a PhD in Business and Society argues that outsourcing white collar jobs is throwing away our considerable skills, which may leave the U.S intellectually and technically behind within a few years. Another downside, is the jobs being outsourced are being given to workers overseas who are fresh out of school with zero hands on experience. He also states that a real national tragedy is that all these millions of laid-off employees here possess extremely valuable skills which are no longer being utilized.
http://bizcovering.com/business-and-society/great-american-dream-or-nightmare-us-troubles-ahead-from-outsourcing-white-collar-jobs-to-overseas/

The "Dis-location" of U.S. Medicine — The Implications of Medical Outsourcing

This journal states that outsourcing medical care can be viewed as a positive thing because it is enabling doctors to focuse on improved quality to access specalized care. This has allowing patients to recieve care from the best providers. The ICU (Intensive Care Unit) has off- sited intensivists monitors patients by close- circuit televisons. This allows off shore physicians to adivse local providers.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/7/661#F1

Offshoring: Nighthawk Radiology Services

In addition to the growing trend of businesses outsourcing jobs, now hospitals are jumping on the bandwagon. When a patient needs an X-Ray read in the middle of the night, no longer will a dreary-eyes radiologist be woken, now radiologists in Banglore and India can be called to examine the results. Companies such as "Nighthawk Radiology" provides high-quality, cost-effective radiology services to hospitals across the United States.