US companies hiring at rapid pace … overseas

[deminks]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/us-companies-hiring-overseas/

Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.

More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc. has hired this year were outside the U.S. UPS is also hiring at a faster clip overseas. For both companies, sales in international markets are growing at least twice as fast as domestically.

The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8 percent last month, even though companies are performing well: All but 4 percent of the top 500 U.S. corporations reported profits this year, and the stock market is close to its highest point since the 2008 financial meltdown.

But the jobs are going elsewhere. The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, says American companies have created 1.4 million jobs overseas this year, compared with less than 1 million in the U.S. The additional 1.4 million jobs would have lowered the U.S. unemployment rate to 8.9 percent, says Robert Scott, the institute's senior international economist.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. they need to be fined every time they hire a non-American worker

overseas.

$1 million fine per worker should do it.

Hawkeye-X

[SugarShack]

2. Thanks Sen. Mark Warner of VA, for voting against the jobs bill, along with Leiberman, Nelson (NE),

I called his office for the reason and was told, "Sen. Warner felt the jobs bill was too bold."

There you have it! Moving the jobs overseas to begin with was not a bold move?????