Well, at least the Obama Administration is no longer completely ignoring the issue.
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization's winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia.
Soon, however, Americans may be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shutter the unit that produces them.
President Obama's budget would eliminate the International Labor Comparisons office and transfer its 16 economists to expand the bureau's work tracking inflation and occupational trends. The White House says the cut, estimated to save $2 million, is one of many difficult decisions the president was forced to make to control spending.
Funny that this is the place they start for balancing the budget.
Don't like the statistics? Well, then, just bury them
That's just wonderful. God, this guy has to be the biggest disappointment yet in terms of campaign rhetoric vs. what they are doing. I'm so glad I didn't buy into the spin during the election but some of this is worse than Bush! I didn't think that was possible!