Information about the Effects of Outsourcing on Georgia

Legislative Agenda - SB12 Prohibit tax paid outsourcing

We have reported several times (such as The State of Georgia is sending Georgia jobs to India with YOUR Tax Dollars) the State of Georgia is using your tax dollars to send jobs to foreign countries.

One example is:

Georgia's Department of Human Resources pays Citicorp $8 million a year to manage phone inquiries from the state's 438,000 food stamp recipients. Citicorp outsources the work to an Indian call center that handles roughly 1.7 million calls annually from Georgians.

SB12 (see entire bill below) has been filed in the State Senate:

This bill was stuck in the Senate State and Local Government Operations committee during this years session. Many Republicans seem to support outsourcing, due to pressure from the Chamber. So unless we can generate visible support this bill will not see the light of day, a victim of death in committee. We encourage you to contact your Senator and encourage them strongly to support this bill.

Here is the information on the committee:

Let them hear from you if you are concerned about your tax dollars being used to ship jobs to India.

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