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Outsourcing To Rural America
An anonymous reader writes "News.com is running a story about Rural Sourcing, a company attempting to make outsourcing to rural America as cost effective as sending jobs to India."
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It's referred to as a "soft cost". They can be very difficult to quantify, so, yes, there is probably some fudging of the number to make it work. However, the "inconvenience factor" as well as cultural differences are two of the items you will see on almost every outsourcing pros & cons list.
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Compared to... New York? Hey youzz guyzzz got a problem with your computer?
Or maybe Southern California. Dude your system has some seriously bad karma going on.
Yea what ever. If you look at the school system ratings you will find that best schools tend to be in the more rural states. Here is the top ten by % of students that graduate. Only one state New Jersey could be called urban.
1 NEW JERSEY 87%
2 NORTH DAKOTA 86%
3 UTAH 86%
4 IOWA 85%
5 NEBRASKA 84%
6 SOUTH DAKOTA 83%
7 WEST VIRGINIA 83%
8 MONTANA 81%
9 WISCONSIN 81%
10 MINNESOTA 80%
The big urban states of California and New York are ranked 35th and 39th.
My home state is at the bottom of the list. Why? Our schools suck. Too many retired people that do not want to pay for good schools because "they already paid for their kids to go to school". Well when they get the snot beat out of them by roaming gangs of drop outs we will see. When will people learn that you will pay for schools or for prisons.
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While I understand the attempt at humor, it should be noted (to the humor and research impaired) that the data is this graph is completely made up...
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.a
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