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	GAO to Investigate Jobs Going Abroad

Washington- Representative George Brown, D-Calif., said yesterday that he
has initiated a congressional investigation into activities by the U.S. 
Agency for International Development that encourage foreign countries to 
lure away American manufacturing jobs.
	Brown also said he will try to add an amendment to a bill pending
in Congress to block AID (their caps) from conducting such programs.  
 	He said the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm
of Congress, will conduct the investigation.
	the targets are AID programs that develop export-processing
zones abroad, where U.S. manufacturers establish plants and use local 
workers at lower wages than American workers would recieve for the 
same work.
	Brown, at a news conference, charged that 70,000 workers at 
200 such export-processing zones are taking manufacturing jobs that
otherwise would be held by U.S. workers.

	Who are these guys? Does anyone have a history of this
department? I can't believe we would set up an agency who's sole
pupose is to export jobs.

-Garrett