50 Is the New 65: Older Americans Are Getting Booted from Their Jobs -- and Denied New Opportunities

[KoKo]

43. Many jobs have gone to outsourcing.

and that would be one way to increase employment. Stop exporting tech, billing and collections and medical jobs to low wage countries like India and even Ireland.

Our local newspaper had a report that even some dentists are sending their crown, bridge and restoration work over to China rather than using local dental labs. Radiologists in India are now reading x-rays over the internet to save costs for hospitals.

There's probably more outsourcing than we are even aware of going on. This should be stopped. There are many jobs in clerical, billing, banking that could be restored without using data centers in low tax or low wage countries.

You made good points about jobs that are gone and not coming back but that isn't the whole story if we are outsourcing jobs which can be done here, but the corporations don't want to pay the workers a decent wage because the Ceo's, CFA's and Boards of Directors want to keep the big bucks and perks going to themselves.