U.S. employers shed 63,000 jobs in February 2008, the most in five years.
A study by MetLife estimates the loss to U.S. employers to be between $17.1 and $33.6 billion per year.
The program permits U.S. employers to bring temporary foreign workers into the country to perform seasonal agricultural work.
The initiative's target is to increase the number of U.S. employers offering workplace charging by tenfold in the next five years.
Now six out of ten U.S. employers now have casual days in their workplaces, all but a few establishing this practice during the 1990s.
But if that were true, U.S. employers would be racing to relocate even without Nafta.
Whether it's a local pizza shop, dental firm, or hair salon, these small businesses represent more than 99.7 percent of all U.S. employers.
Puerto Rico's large pool of engineering students is not going unnoticed by U.S. employers.
A hundred years ago, U.S. employers would have been ashamed of these conditions.
On both scores, U.S. employers will cut wages to stay competitive.