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Debate Over Exporting Jobs Raises Questions

The Policy Wonks are now interested: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/technology/23neco.html

Meet the Zippies

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Meet the Zippies
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: February 22, 2004

Columnist Page: Thomas L. Friedman

BANGALORE, India

We grew up with the hippies in the 1960's. Thanks to the high-tech revolution, many of us became yuppies in the 1980's. And now, fasten your seat belt, because you may soon lose your job to a "zippie" in the 2000's.

"The Zippies Are Here," declared the Indian weekly magazine Outlook. Zippies are this huge cohort of Indian youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade, the information revolution and turning itself into the world's service center. Outlook calls India's zippies "Liberalization's Children," and defines one as "a young city or suburban resident, between 15 and 25 years of age, with a zip in the stride. Belongs to generation Z. Can be male or female, studying or working. Oozes attitude, ambition and aspiration. Cool, confident and creative. Seeks challenges, loves risks and shuns fears." Indian zippies carry no guilt about making money or spending it. They are, says one Indian analyst quoted by Outlook, destination driven, not destiny driven; outward, not inward, looking; upwardly mobile, not stuck-in-my-station-in-life.

Got to NYT for more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/opinion/22FRIE.html?hp

Many New Causes for Old Problem of Jobs Lost Abroad

From Sunday's NYT....Article points out the vast amount of legislation currently being proposed in the US to curtail offshoring, and discusses the kinds of skills you need to keep working in the US during this time of enormous change.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/business/15JOBS.html?pagewanted=1

Bush, Adviser Assailed for Stance on Offshoring Jobs

Bush, Adviser Assailed for Stance on 'Offshoring' Jobs

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 11, 2004; Page A06

Democrats from Capitol Hill to the presidential campaign trail lit into President Bush's chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad, seizing on the comments to paint Bush as out of touch with struggling workers.

"They've delivered a double blow to America's workers, 3 million jobs destroyed on their watch, and now they want to export more of our jobs overseas," said John F. Kerry, the Massachusetts senator and front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. "What in the world are they thinking?"

Go to the URL below for the full story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30194-2004Feb10.html