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The issue that I want to address in my researched essay is globalization impact on the American workforce. This issue directly affects almost every single employee in the
United States. Corporations choosing to go global are in turn cutting thousands of American jobs each year which lowers our GDP and GNI as well as leaves thousands out there with no job or assets to money. In the past others have identified globalization as both good and bad. Good because it lets Americans specialize in what we do best and trade for everything else. Making us have a comparative advantage in the things we do best in the
United States such as agriculture and financial services. Bad because it costs American jobs and ethical issues about foreign labor laws and environment issues. There are many different perspectives as to if globalization is good or bad for
America. Along with these many different perspectives there is also some misunderstanding of the concept of globalization. Some people don’t really understand what exactly it is and how it affects oneself. In order to write a paper I will need to identify what globalization is and explain how it is practiced through examples, and academic sources. At this point in time my stance on the issue is it is negative but I still need to do some more research before I determine my stance because I am left open for persuasion to change my thinking.