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224,800 = Total job losses 41 months after start of recession, 3/2001–8/20041 159,400 = Job losses in manufacturing 41 months after start of recession 3/2001-8/20042 -164,500 = Actual job growth vs. growth projected by Bush administration, 6/2003–8/20043 141,000 = Jobs projected -23,500 = Actual job growth 314,000 = Jobs shortfall - Job growth compared to working-age population growth, 3/2001–8/20044 -4.0% = Job growth 1.6% = Working-age population growth 6.1% = Unemployment rate in August 2004 (3.9% = Unemployment rate in January 2001)5 563,680 = Jobs at risk of outsourcing in Ohio6 46,593 = Jobs lost to NAFTA 1993-2002 (Jobs gained minus jobs destroyed)7 $43,520 = Median inflation-adjusted household income in 2003, down $142 from 2002, up $98 from 2001, and down $2,371 from 20008 $13.14 = Inflation-adjusted median hourly wage in 2003, down from $13.20 in 20019 Recent outsourcing events in Ohio Niles: MCI, 696 workers, 2004 Canton: Timken Company, 1,300 workers, 2004 Dayton: NCR, 350 workers, 2003-2004 Fort Shawnee: Siemens AG, 215 workers, 2002 State government offshoring Public Records Sent Abroad10 Veteran's records sent to India Birth records sent to Sri Lanka Key articles Gloria Irwin, “Offshoring, Imports Take Toll in Ohio,” Beacon Journal, 9/23/04 James McNair, “Offshore: U.S. Workers Face Job Drain,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 9/12/04 Alan Johnson and Mark Niquette, “Job-Outsourcing Debate Heated for Party Leaders,” Columbus Dispatch, 9/11/04 Jeff Bruce, “Turner Taking Race Seriously; Congressional Incumbent Says Mitakides' Outsourcing Accusation is Untrue,” Dayton Daily News, 9/2/04 Erika D. Smith, “Hudson Allstate Workers Fear Cuts,” Akron Beacon Journal, 8/27/04 “U.S. Needs Facts on Job Offshoring,” Dayton Daily News, 8/27/04 Mara Lee, “Idled Workers Lead Outsource Backlash,” Dayton Daily News, 8/23/04 Mara Lee, “Call Center Closing Forces Workers to Find New Jobs, Sacrifice,” Dayton Daily News, 8/23/04 Mara Lee, “From Dayton to Delhi,” Dayton Daily News, 8/22/04 Mara Lee, “Promised Savings Evaporate in Some Offshore Projects,” Dayton Daily News, 8/21/04 Jon Craig, “Ohio Business Call Center; 14 State Workers Fired; Private Operator Gets Jobs,” Columbus Dispatch, 7/8/04 “Kerry Pledges to Fight for Jobs in Ohio and Across the Country,” John Kerry Campaign, Press Release, 9/25/04 Warren Vieth, “Economy Lagging in Key State; Ohio, Home to Ground Zero for the Election, is Struggling to Reap the Benefits of the Recovery,” Los Angeles Times, 5/28/04 Chris Seper, “Outsourcing Brings Identity-Theft Risk,” Plain Dealer, 5/24/04 “Timken to Close Ohio Factory,” Pittsburgh Business Times, 5/17/04 “Timken Layoffs Potentially Devastating for Canton; 1,300 Jobs Predicted to be Cut,” News Channel 5, Cleveland, 5/16/04 Felipe F. Salvosa II, “US Call Center Company Intellirisk Setting Up Business in Philippines,” Business World, 4/26/04 Chris Seper, “Offshoring Finds Foes in Ohio Legislature,” Plain Dealer, 4/19/04 Lee Leonard, “Lawmaker, Unions Hope to Keep Ohio Jobs from being Exported,” Columbus Dispatch, 4/8/04 Karen MacPherson, “Foreign Call Centers Outrage Lawmakers; Workers in India Taking Welfare Queries,” Toledo Blade, 4/5/04 David Lazarus, “Extortion Threat to Patients' Records; Clients Not Informed of India Staff's Breach,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4/2/04 “ITAA Report Defends Outsourcing and Marcy Kaptur Responds,” Lou Dobbs Tonight/CNN (excerpts), 3/30/04 Karen MacPherson, “Kaptur Criticizes Overseas Phone Jobs,” Toledo Blade, 3/27/04 “Ohio Leaders Describe Impact of Bush's Outsourcing of American Jobs,” John Kerry Campaign, Press Release, 3/24/04 Homer Brickey, “Outsourcing Hits Close to Home for Workers in Northwest Ohio,” Toledo Blade, 3/14/04 “President Discusses Plan for Economic Growth in Ohio; Remarks by the President to Timken Company Employees, Canton, Ohio,” White House Press Release, April 24, 2003 1Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “JobWatch – State Data,” 9/17/04. 2Bureau of Labor Statistics. 3EPI, “JobWatch – State Data.” 4EPI, “JobWatch – State Data.” 5Bureau of Labor Statistics. 6This figure reflects jobs that could move offshore because of occupational attributes, not those that will actually move (which will most likely be far fewer). It is derived from the 2003 BLS data analyzed by Dr. Cynthia Kroll, Senior Regional Economist, Fisher Center of Real Estate, University of California-Berkeley. 7Robert Scott, “The High Price of ‘Free’ Trade; NAFTA’s Failure has Cost the United States Across the Nation,” Economic Policy Institute, 11/17/03. 8U.S. Census Bureau, “Historical Income Tables – Median Household Income by State 1084 to 2004” 9Policy Matters Ohio, The State of Working Ohio 2004 [Acrobat 350K] and The State of Working Ohio 2003 [Acrobat 471K] 10Lori Wallach, “Gap in Basic Consumer Safeguards Encourage Offshoring,” 4/21/04 Learn about outsourcing in other states