Fact Of The Day #39: Help Wanted Overseas (INFOGRAPHIC)

What Outsourcing Looks Like

US-based multinational companies eliminated 1 million jobs from the US workforce between 1999 and 2010 while adding 3.1 million in other countries. If those companies had kept their domestic hires working instead of laying them off, the US unemployment rate in 2010 would have been 9.0 percent instead of the actual 9.6 percent.

More details in today's infographic. Check it out, then weigh in down below. What corporate behavior do you favor?

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