Low unemployment rate hides rise in long-term jobless

Now there’s a headline you don’t see everyday! I’ve been talking about this for months with friends. Some feel the pain of losing their job to “offshore” workers. Others, living in oblivion, haven’t been affected and think the shift of American Jobs to overseas locations is just another part of business. Worst of all, they think there is nothing they can do about it.

I constantly try to remind them that corporations have been doing this for years (selling out the American worker.) In the mid-80’s Emerson Electric (St. Louis) made a big push to build plants and infrastructure in Mexico and other offshore locations. A few years later, they began moving production lines across the border and closing factories in the US. Today, most of their products are made on foreign soil.

Now, in this article, some one is finally putting some of the numbers together.