建筑业、金融业和外包制造与服务业中所流失的许多工作岗位是永久性丧失，最近的一些研究显示，随着时间的推移，美国有四分之一的工作岗位可能会完全转移到国外。
Many of the lost jobs – in construction, finance, and outsourced manufacturing and services – are gone forever, and recent studies suggest that a quarter of US jobs can be fully outsourced over time to other countries.