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The Job Shortage Tur |
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A worker shortage. As recently as early 2003, over two million workers had lost their jobs since the start of the recession in 2001. At 6.2 percent, the national unemployment rate hovered at the highest level it had been in nine years, and the number of new jobless claims lingered above 400,000 for 20 straight weeks. People were screaming about offshoring, downsizing, and a lack of jobs. Little did they realize that they were at the beginning of a new era when skilled workers would be in very short supply and companies would be begging for workers. |
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Rising Domestic Terr |
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Americans are under siege by terrorists right now, but the primary source of the problem is not al Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist organization. The threat stems from home-grown activist groups with names like: the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. And it’s not just left-wing radicals who are causing the problems. Domestic terror threats include bombings by right-wing terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. |
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대기업은 현금을 어디에 쓰는가? |
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개인, 중소기업, 심지어 정부 기관조차 대규모의 불황(Great Recession)을 겪으며 현금 자산보유에 어려움을 겪고 있다. 하지만 대기업은 현금 더미 위에 앉아 자금을 활용할 기회를 기다리고 있다. 이 현상이 앞으로 경제에 미칠 영향은 무엇일까?
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Off-Shoring the Back |
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Let’s face it, there’s hardly a business topic that’s more emotionally charged than off-shoring: the new trend of outsourcing business processes to foreign workers. It is much cheaper to pay people in other countries to do this routine work because they are paid only a small fraction of the salaries that American workers receive. |
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미래의 인터넷 구축 |
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최근 통과된 미국의 경기부양책 회복과 재투자 법안(American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)은 미 전역에 걸쳐 브로드밴드 개발을 지원하기 위해 72억 달러를 배정했다. 정보기술혁신재단(Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. ITIF)이 최근 발표한 백서에 따르면, 확장 브로드밴드를 통해 더 빠르고 풍부한 인터넷을 사용할 수 있게 될 것이며, 보다 생생한 화상회의 및 더 많은 웹 서비스의 아웃소싱이 가능하게 될 것이라고 한다. <br> |
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