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| Although we’ve just explained that there is little reason to worry about off-shoring low-skilled, low-paying jobs that will be automated anyway, many observers are even more anxious about this related trend. Many companies are starting to off-shore some of their highly-skilled technical jobs to overseas providers. |
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The Decline of Labor |
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| After decades of growth, union membership in the United States has been declining steadily for the past 20 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total membership peaked at almost 18 million people in 1980. By last year, according to The Charlotte News & Observer, that figure had dropped to less than 16 million, just 13 percent of the country’s workforce. |
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The Adkins Diet Is R |
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| What do Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Aniston, and Bill Clinton have in common, besides being liberal democrats? They"re all part of the growing number of Americans who have embraced a low-carbohydrate diet ?the most popular of which are the Atkins Diet and the South Beach Diet. |
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