Outsourcing in the staffing industry , First, the bad news: Some of us will lose a job this year. It’s inevitable. After all, in the last 10 years, the country has lost more than 7 million jobs each quarter on average. But now the good news: That won’t matter to most, because there are actually more jobs available than ever before. Almost everyone who loses a job can get another one, often at a higher salary. The federal government’s household survey shows more than 139 million Americans are working today -- the highest number ever recorded. Plus, the unemployment rate is holding steady at a relatively low 5.5 percent, even as our population increases. All this matters because it’s election season, and over the next three months we’re going to be hearing a lot about the dangers of “outsourcing,” the process by which American jobs are supposedly being sent to other nations -- countries that refuse to compete with us on a “level playing field.” The reality, of course, is that the playing field is tipped our way. The United States has the best educated, most productive, most adaptive workforce in the world. Because of that, and our support of free trade, “outsourcing” is actually far overshadowed by something we hear much less about, “insourcing.” That’s the process by which foreign firms hire workers here, including Honda workers in Ohio and BMW employees in South Carolina. A recent study by the Organization for International Investment found that there are 6.4 million jobs in the U.S. in which the employer is a foreign company. The study also showed insourced jobs are growing at an annual rate of 5.5 percent, while manufacturing outsourced jobs grew at an annual rate of only 1.5 percent. More companies are moving jobs here than are shipping them elsewhere.