1、Order Code RS22761Updated January 30, 2008Extending Trade Adjustment Assistance(TAA) to Service Workers: How Many WorkersCould Potentially Be Covered?John J. TopoleskiAnalyst in Income SecurityDomestic Social Policy DivisionSummaryTrade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) provides income support and trainin
2、gassistance to workers who become unemployed for certain trade-related reasons. Onlyworkers who make an article (i.e., manufacturing workers) are eligible for TAA. Undercurrent law, service workers who become unemployed for a trade-related reason (e.g.,outsourcing) are ineligible for TAA. Several bi
3、lls in the 110th Congress (S. 1848, H.R.910, H.R. 3589, H.R. 3920) would expand TAA to include service workers and publicsector employees. The available data indicates that the number of displacedmanufacturing workers in offshorable occupations from 2003 to 2005 (489,000) roughlyequals the number of
4、 TAA-certified manufacturing workers over the same period(450,000). There were 840,000 workers displaced from offshorable nonmanufacturingoccupations from 2003 to 2005, suggesting that the pool of TAA-eligible workers couldhave increased by over 170% if service workers had been eligible for TAA. In
