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Wed August 15, 2012

Inside Offshoring, Part 3: One Worker's Story

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Train tracks in Taunton, where one of the laid-off Sensata workers lives.
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In Taunton, where one of the laid-off Sensata workers lives.
Sensata Technologies headquarters in Attleboro, Mass.
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Sensata Technologies, formerly Texas Instruments, where a worker who didn't want to be named worked for 33 years, until his job went offshore.

The week of Aug. 13, we've been focusing on one of the biggest issues in this presidential campaign: offshoring American jobs. Mitt Romney's history at Bain Capital led us to an Attleboro, Mass., company as a focal point for a deeper discussion of the complexities of offshoring. Phillip Martin concludes the story with a look at one worker's past, present and future.

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