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Political backlash to overseas outsourcing

NYTimes (registration required):

After the eFunds Corporation of Scottsdale, Ariz., a contractor hired by the State of New Jersey to manage a welfare and food-stamp program, moved its customer-service operations to Bombay from Wisconsin, a New Jersey legislator, Shirley K. Turner, introduced a bill that would require that workers hired under state contracts be American citizens or legal aliens or they occupy some specialty niche that American workers cannot be found to fill. ” `I say it’s time to bring ‘em back from Bombay,’ Senator Turner said of the client service jobs currently based in India,” a news release stated.

So exactly how is it we are supposed to be living in a “free market” economy? Oh, I forgot—free market economics only apply to some.

February 13, 2003 | Archived in Business