As Cost Pressures Mount, Offshoring Is Making the Work Go Round
In a March 24 announcement of new steps to keep state contractors from sending work overseas, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) revved up the rhetoric. "We need to encourage jobs in New Prague or New Ulm," he said, referring to two small towns in the state, "not New Delhi."
The rhetoric is flying in this election year as governors, members of Congress and lobbying groups of all political persuasions, not to mention engineers and contractors in the U.S. and abroad, square off on one of todays fastest-growing global work force trendsoffshoring.