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U.S. Lost Quarter of its High-Tech Jobs in Past Decade
U.S. multinational corporations rapidly increased the number of high-tech manufacturing and R&D jobs overseas over the past decade.
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More than a quarter of the United States' high-tech manufacturing jobs were lost in the past decade, according to a new government study.
The United States shed 28 percent, or 687,000 jobs, in high-tech sectors since reaching its peak of 2.5 million in 2000, according to the study released Tuesday (January 17) by the National Science Board, the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation.
High-tech manufacturing jobs took their first hit during the recession of 2001, suffering "substantial and permanent" losses in such sectors as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications equipment, computer and office equipment, and scientific instruments, the report said. By 2010, more than a quarter of the jobs were lost.
The biennial report, "Science and Engineering Indicators," noted that U.S.-based multinational firms are creating research and development jobs abroad at an unprecedented rate. Since 2004, about 85 percent of all research and development job growth has been in U.S. firms' foreign outposts.
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