Offshore Outsourcing Legislation In 2009

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, the outsourcing community, particularly those involved in offshore outsourcing, were quite concerned with then-Senator Barrack Obama's comments on the damage being done to American workers by offshore outsourcing and his commitment to fight it.

However, since President Obama's election, the fate of offshore outsourcing remains unclear. During a March 2009 Town Hall meeting, President Obama admitted that not all jobs that had been outsourced overseas would be coming back, on the theory that many of those jobs were for low-wage, low-skill workers, and that bringing them back would not help the economy since "there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs – at least in order to be competitive in an international setting." Instead, President Obama put forth the notion that the country has to create higher-skilled, higher-paying jobs that can't be outsourced.