US firms hide outsourced jobs
Some of the country's best-known multinational corporations closely guard a number they don't want anyone to know: the breakdown between their jobs here and abroad. So secretive are these firms that they hand the figure over to government statisticians on the condition that officialswill release only an aggregate number. The latest data show that multinationals cut 2.9 million jobs in the U.S. and added 2.4 million overseas between 2000 and 2009.
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