Healthcare // Analytics 11:23 AM Paul McDougall Paul McDougall
Connect Directly Repost This  Ban On USAID Outsourcing Programs
Makes Bipartisan Sense  U.S. Congressman Tim Bishop wants to bar
the development agency from using public funds to help train
offshore workers. Here's why lawmakers from both sides of the
aisle should support the initiative.  In this highly polarized
electoral season, there may be one piece of legislation on which
partisans on both the left and right can probably agree--
Congressman Tim Bishop's proposal to ban the United States
Agency for International Development from funding training
programs designed to prepare students in foreign countries for
jobs in offshore IT and call centers.  Bishop, a Long Island
Democrat, said on Thursday said he introduced to an
appropriations bill language that would severely restrict
USAID's ability to spend taxpayers' money by effectively
subsidizing foreign employee training costs for highly
profitable companies looking to offshore call center jobs in