A. F. Ehrbar, in Fortune (May 16, 1983),
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Some economists and politicians worry that high-tech factories and foreign competition will cost millions of American blue-collar workers their jobs over the next several decades. But Ehrbar, a Fortune editor, says such fears are "overblown."
An oft-cited Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, for example,
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