An interesting article in the LA Times suggests that even highly-educated jobs are vulnerable to the great equalizer of outsourcing. The only thing that will protect jobs at home is if they cannot be performed remotely.
A bit too extreme, I think. The article does not mention it, but ultra-educated jobs, and the unique businesses they drive, will also remain at home. Our universities and technology industries are locomotives that can pull us to a more prosperous future — but only if properly funded and managed and supported by a top-notch national system of public education.
From the article, which is worth reading: “The president’s assertion that the answer to foreign outsourcing is education, a mantra embraced by Democrats as well as Republicans, is being challenged by a growing body of research and analysis from economists and other scholars. Education â at least as delivered by most of the nation’s colleges, universities and technical schools â is no longer quite the economic cure-all it once was, nor the guarantee of financial security Americans have come to expect from college and graduate degrees.”
