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Job Outsourcing More and more American white-collar jobs are being filled or replaced by non-Americans. Where does this leave the American workers? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? About 20 years ago many people lost their auto and manufacturing jobs to outsourcing. This was first believed to be bad for the American nation. As we later found out, this resulted in a strong economic growth. Innovation created better and more jobs to replace the ones lost. So does this mean that outsourcing white-collared jobs will in the long term have the same effect as did outsourcing blue-collar jobs? There are two ways to look at this. The first says that yes, outsourcing is a good thing. Moving well-educated jobs overseas to have people do the same job for far less will create new higher paying jobs for the American workers. The other opinion is no, outsourcing highly skilled jobs is different and poses a larger risk to the economy. As high skilled jobs move overseas, where does that leave the white-collared American workers? Some believe that we have to