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media type="youtube" key="H95-IS_EQlI" height="385" width="640" Toy companies were the first to outsource. They outsourced to Japan in the 1950's and then to Asia and China.

=Outsourcing= Outsourcing is the contracting of business to a third-party. For example when Microsoft needs costumer service people for their X-box live customer service, they send the jobs to a different country where they do the job for half the price of the American that would have done it for. This subject causes debates on whether this strategy of making money is good or bad for the economy. Some people think that outsourcing helps the economy because prices go down. They go down because the businesses save money from paying the outher countries less money, so the prices in the United States go down. Other peope might say that it hurts the U.S. because we lose valuable jobs, which has been a big problem in the U.S. today. My opinion is that outsourcing is good because if the coorperations didn't pay the other country to do the job, then the prices in stores would go up. Even though we lose jobs, everyone has the opertunity to do well in school and get a good job that wouldn't be sent over to a different country.