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11,200 = Total job losses 41 months after start of recession, 3/2001–8/20041 21,800 = Job losses in manufacturing 41 months after start of recession 3/2001-8/20042 -15,700 = Actual job growth vs. growth projected by Bush administration, 6/2003–8/20043 60,100 = Jobs projected 44,400 = Actual job growth -99,000 = Jobs shortfall - Job growth compared to working-age population growth, 3/2001–8/20044 -0.7% = Job growth 5.4% = Working-age population growth 7.4% = Unemployment rate in August 2004 (4.8% = Unemployment rate in January 2001)5 165,670 = Jobs at risk of outsourcing in Oregon6 9,720 = Jobs lost to NAFTA 1993-2002 (Jobs gained minus jobs destroyed)7 $41,638 = Median inflation-adjusted household income in 2003, down $1,122 from 2002, $3,565 from 2001, and $3,759 from 20008 Recent outsourcing events in Oregon Hillsboro: Intel, 700 workers, 2004-05 Milton-Freewater: Sykes Enterprises, 264 workers, 2004 Beaverton: Stream International, 170 workers, 2004 Klamath Falls: Sykes Enterprises, 750 workers, 2003-04 Beaverton: Everest Consultants, 100 workers, 2003-04 Wilsonville: Tyco International, 317 workers, 2003 Political action Oregon returned state agency call center work performed overseas by eFunds at a cost of $300,000 In letter to Robert Zoelleck, USTR, June 4, 2004, Governor Ted Kulongoski rescinded state’s compliance with the Government Procurement Agreement - guarantees foreign companies equal access to state contracting process Foreign companies on state vendor list9 HCL Technologies (Massachusetts), Incorporated ICICI Infotech Mascon Information Technologies R Systems Satyam Computer Services SSI North America Syntel Tata Group State contractors who subcontract work abroad eFunds—the work returned to Oregon in September 2004 Key articles Brent Hunsberger, “State Recovery Leans on Jobs that Pay Less,” Sunday Oregonian, 9/19/04 Scott Baranick, “Tales Of Two Oregon Towns Give Lessons On Lessening Outsourcing's Sting,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/23/04 Jon Swartz, “Inmates vs. Outsourcing,” USA Today, 7/6/04 Randi Bjornstad, “Call Center to Cut 170 Part-Time Positions,” Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), 6/25/04 “Kulongoski Says State May Opt Out Of Future Trade Pacts,” Associated Press, 6/4/04 “Call Center In India Counterproductive,” Salem Statesman-Journal, 4/5/04 “Oregon Call Center Jobs Move To Canada,” Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce On-line, 4/8/04 Brent Hunsberger, “Kulongoski Opposes State Outsourcing,” Oregonian, 4/3/04 “Perfecting the Chase,” Oregon Business, 4/1/04 Brad Cain, “Governor Wants an End to ‘Outsourcing,’” Associated Press, 4/1/04 Brent Hunsberger, “Few Laid-Off Oregonians Benefit from Federal Job Retraining Efforts,” Oregonian, 3/21/04 “Oregon's Tech Players Export Production Jobs,” Business Journal, 1/23/04 Richard Read, “High-Tech's New Frontier,” Sunday Oregonian, 12/21/03 “Oregon Loses 317 Tyco Jobs to Mexico,” Associated Press, 12/10/03 “Klamath Falls Call Center to Close,” Business Journal Portland, 11/20/03 Ted Sickinger, “Asian Competition Poses Threat to Oregon's High-Tech Industry,” Oregonian, 2/3/03 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 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 1984 to 2004” 9Philip Mattera, “Your Tax Dollars at Work … Offshore: How Foreign Outsourcing Firms are Capturing State Government Contracts,” WashTech/Good Jobs First, July 2004 Learn about outsourcing in other states