Americans see job-loss to foreign nations

Economic Times
Americans see illegal immigration, loss of jobs to foreign countries, natural disaster and energy shortage as events most likely to be major threats to the US in the next five years. Two of these possible threats are seen as extremely or very likely by over half of the public, according to a Harris Poll released Monday, with 55 per cent of all adults putting a large number of illegal immigrants coming in at the top. A significant loss of jobs to foreign countries comes next with 52 percent of adults believing it would be an extremely or very likely threat, according to the results of an online survey of 1,508 US adults Jan 5-12. However, because split samples were used, each individual item on the list was asked of between 400 and 500 adults. more...