Critical Summary Of Your Local News By Barbara Ehrenreich

In Barbara Ehrenreich’s article, “Your Local News”, her ideas about outsourcing help the reader understand Fareed Zakaria’s thesis that we are living through a power shift called “The Rise of The Rest” by explaining that America is not declining but is helping everyone else rise above. These authors come together to further understanding of the shift of power that has occurred due to outsourcing, putting America in the backseat of progression, but not out of the race.

Ehrenreich introduces his ideas by explaining that “in the eighties, US companies began outsourcing the manufacturing of everything from garments to steel…”, but by the nineties, “back office and call center jobs migrated to India” (609). This helps the readers understand Zakaria when he he tells his readers that “for the first time ever, we are witnessing genuinely global growth.” (613). In other words, America isn't the primary nation forging ahead anymore. Instead, America is being surpassed with other countries outsourcing jobs.

is no longer way above everyone else. Meaning that America has plateaued due to the lack of jobs and opportunities available due to outsourcing. Zakaria agrees with this theory when he says that “Many observers and commentators have looked at the vitality of this emerging world and concluded that the United States has had its day” (618). What he trying to say in this quote, is that it is generally accepted by most that the U.S.’s former glory has all but faded into the background while placed like India and China are recognised and the new innovators of the