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Overseas Job Outsourcing Can Be Cut, Says Pollina Study

07:30 EST Friday, November 21, 2003

CHICAGO, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- With American jobs flying out the door to lands far away, a new report-Top 10 Pro-Business States: Keeping Jobs In America-authored by Dr. Ronald R. Pollina, a leading corporate location expert -- concludes that millions of Americans are unnecessarily losing their jobs overseas because of the failed policies of the Federal Government and four out of five state governments.

"Don't bash China or India -. they are doing their job -. we as a nation are not," says Dr. Pollina, president of Chicago-based Pollina Corporate Real Estate. "Few US elected officials are doing their jobs to retain high tech and manufacturing jobs. To save US jobs, government dollars must be directed to stimulate technology investment and worker training and address the layers of Federal, state and local bureaucracy that stifle economic growth."

"The Federal Government and most states must provide the training, capital investment, incentives and general positive business environment that key businesses and industries need to compete in the global marketplace, and they are failing," the Pollina report observes. Says Dr. Pollina, "State and Federal political leaders should school themselves in what it takes for a business to survive and thrive in cutthroat global competition. Many jobs leaving our shores are savable, especially those in manufacturing."

"A company that can replace an aging factory with an efficient, automated plant is better positioned to keep its manufacturing jobs here, and the states that have provided assistance in this area have been more successful at retaining jobs for Americans," says Dr. Pollina. "If a business weighs whether to stay or ship jobs abroad, they are going to consider a state or region's effective business tax rates, worker compensation laws, "right-to-work" laws, human resources, energy costs and infrastructure spending. State and Federal officials must address these realities rather than allow a relentless march of manufacturing jobs go to China unchallenged, or let engineering, finance and service sector jobs go to India unchallenged."

"We have singled out ten states that should serve as models for the rest of the country and Washington," explains Dr. Pollina:

     1.   Virginia                 6.   South Dakota
     2.   North Carolina           7.   Michigan
     3.   Oklahoma                 8.   South Carolina
     4.   Alabama                  9.   Georgia
     5.   Wyoming                 10.   Delaware

SOURCE Pollina Corporate Real Estate

CONTACT: Aaron Biller of Biller Communications, +1-212-663-9319, abiller@BillerPR.com, for Pollina Corporate Real Estate

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