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billion of activity and 190,000 jobs in north america last year. this does not account for the vastly larger pool of part-time and freelance linguists in the u.s., let alone the jobs that the language industry has indirectly created such as for the american people who have marketed, sell, deliver, and support u.s.-made products worldwide. languages and the business that they enable may be the most powerful force in job creation in the united states today. without languages, u.s. businesses would be missing $2.1 trillion in gross income. as u.s. companies target multilingual audiences...

thanks to the ndea, half century ago the u.s. has been able to maintain a core capacity for foreign language and area studies for most world areas through title 6, both of which unfortunately reduced by 40% over the past two years alongside the outright elimination which you have commented on. this is movement in the wrong direction, which we hope can be addressed by the administration and the congress as soon as possible. on a more positive note, initiatives are rising from the defense foreign affairs and intelligence communities notably national security language initiative which b...