The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently announced that GDP grew at a rate of 2 percent during the last three months.

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In 2009, the most recent year the BEA has analyzed, these big companies had 21.1 workers in the U.S. and 10.3 million outside the country, including growing numbers of skilled employees.

FORBES: Jobs at Big U.S. Firms Move Overseas

We would first shift attention from inaccurate BLS and BEA initial monthly estimates to accurate, real-time data from taxpayers reported to the U.S. Treasury each day.

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