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Before the recession started, there was plenty of coverage of outsourcing of American jobs to China and India--manufacturing to China, service to India. Now NBC and ABC and NBC show the flipside in a shrinking economy. ABC's Gigi Stone was in New Jersey where firms such as Delta Airlines and Apple Computers, Dell, A&T and Netflix are bringing call centers home. Patriotism or nativism? "Are these companies really trying to benefit their customers? Or are they capitalizing on the fact that some are complaining because they are prejudiced against foreigners?"
For NBC's In Depth, Ian Williams wangled an invitation to celebrate the Year of the Ox in a rural village in Sichuan Province. Joining the feast were migrant workers returning home. During boom times the village's prosperity was built on remittances from its sons and daughters working in the manufacturing zones: "Officials say nearly 70,000 businesses have closed in the coastal regions that were China's export power house. They estimate that 10m migrants have already returned to the countryside they had left for a better life."
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