The Role Of Outsourcing In America

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The amount of outsourcing in America has greatly increased over the years since the first real use of outsourcing in the 1970’s/1980’s. This increase in outsourcing hit its highest once the 21first century started, and has ceased to decline since. I found this topic interesting many years ago, and first learned of it through my father. I expanded my knowledge through the news, online articles, and debates over the issue. I plan on presenting my issue to new unfamiliar audiences by defining what outsourcing is, how it’s done, who it affects, and how it affects them. Outsourcing jobs that would be in America to foreign countries has made the U.S. dependent on others instead of being the national powerhouse that was independently ran, and managed

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