Source: money.cnn.com

By Jennifer Alsever

(CNNMoney.com) -- Looking for skilled, low-cost labor? Forget about India and China. How about Jonesboro, Ark.?

As the national unemployment rate hovers near 10%, some companies are starting to eye job-hungry areas of the country as prime candidates for the kind of outsourced work that once would have gone overseas. http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/08/smallbusiness/rural_onshoring/index.htm

Article features IAOP Academic Alliance Partner, Mary Lacity, an information systems professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.