In Mayfield, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb in a critical election battleground state, Ed Lucas has run out of unemployment benefits and most of his savings.
Until last April, he was earning $80,000 a year working for an engineering firm, running computer systems for British Petroleum.
But he says BP found a computer manager in India willing to do the job for less than $10,000 a year.
Ed’s final assignment was training his Indian replacement: “It was just like somebody actually put their hand in my chest and ripped my heart out. It was just the worst feeling anybody could have.”
Ohio has lost 227,000 jobs in the last three years, many of them high-tech jobs outsourced to low-wage countries.
Until last April, he was earning $80,000 a year working for an engineering firm, running computer systems for British Petroleum.
But he says BP found a computer manager in India willing to do the job for less than $10,000 a year.
Ed’s final assignment was training his Indian replacement: “It was just like somebody actually put their hand in my chest and ripped my heart out. It was just the worst feeling anybody could have.”
Ohio has lost 227,000 jobs in the last three years, many of them high-tech jobs outsourced to low-wage countries.
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