I’ll give you yet another head start, Pri. Let’s see if you can use this as a springboard to do more research on your own.
See if you can notice a pattern here. It might be a bit difficult at first, but if you think really hard, you might get it. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more professions that have been outsourced to cheap, exploitable foreign labor — whether the jobs are shipped to countries with desperate workers, or the desperate workers are shipped to these jobs locally, the result is the same, it’s just two sides of the same coin. U.S. workers are being displaced by lower-wage, desperate, exploitable foreign workers.
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“Of the largest occupations in the lowest-wage quintile, the two occupations with the greatest wage declines between 2009 and 2014 were both in the restaurant sector. As Table 1 shows, cooks and food preparation workers experienced wage declines of 8.9 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively. Wage declines were also especially pronounced for janitors and cleaners, personal care aides, home health aides, and maids and housekeeping cleaners.”
