Sentences with phrase «american work force»

These concepts could unlock, reestablish and promote the ideals and can - do ingenuity for which the American work force is renowned.

The oilfield services company announced this week that it would cut 2,000 employees from its North American work force, and will stop paying dividends to shareholders, citing difficult market conditions.

More than 30 percent of American workers today are part of the Millennial generation, making them the largest shareholder of the American work force, above both Gen - X and Baby Boomers.

The American work force is shifting.

Soon more than half of the American work force will be independent.

Not exact matches

«We look forward to working with the U.S. Air Force on subsequent phases of the program allowing us to deliver the best planes for the President at the best value for the American taxpayer.»

It has already drawn severe criticism from the Iraqi government, whose forces are working closely with U.S. forces against ISIS, and from Iraqi politicians now threatening to impose travel restrictions on Americans entering Iraq,» he added.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Addressing the argument that Canada needs a plane that can operate jointly with the American fleet, former German air force pilot Joey Borkenstein emphasized how well the Eurofighter worked alongside U.S. aircraft during the air war over Libya.

Now, United says it has started working with American Humane to improve its pet - carrying policies, revised versions of which will come into force from June 18.

The way it works is that Canadian broadcasters that buy the rights to U.S programming, including the Oscars, can force distributors to overlay local ads on any American station that shows the program at the same time.

That was the Thursday before Fourth of July weekend, and sure enough, little was written about how Google's work force is made up of just 3 percent Hispanics and 2 percent African Americans — unchanged since the first report.

Fifty - three million Americans work independently (according to the Freelancers Union), nearly 34 percent of the work force.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

A few years into the wars, American and coalition forces started to realize the twentieth century military mechanism wasn't going to work against a dangerous, dynamic and vastly decentralized enemy.

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 that are either working or looking for work.

By the time they finish, they have had a far better practical education than most American students — equivalent to an American technical degree — and, as a result, they have an easier time entering the work force.

If you count only those whose primary way to earn a living comes from a so - called alternative work arrangement, you get to about 15 % of the American labor force.

«This work will encourage responsible energy exploration and production, in order to advance the United States» position as a global energy force and foster security for the benefit of the American citizenry.»

Few people say «I want to grow up and work in an office,» yet 15 percent of Americans have office / administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Data going back to 1994 show a steady uptrend in the percentage of young (16 to 24 - year - old) and prime - age (25 to 54) Americans not in the labor force, with parallel rises in the number not wanting to work.

How is it that we have 23 million Americans between 25 and 54, in their prime working age, that are out of the labor force?..

There is now a position open for every unemployed person in the country, and the share of the labor force — Americans who are working or job hunting — has crept up this year, too.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Church leaders» efforts to attack the scourge of degeneracy, feeblemindedness and poverty ran parallel to and often joined forces with the work of the American Eugenics Society.

You stand up for Muslim holidays... are you aware that many Christians don't even get their holidays off, many hard working Americans are forced to work during their holidays... I'm all for equality, but you are preaching to cater to Muslims, in effect, giving them more rights to holidays than their Christian counterparts.

Forcing them to pay health insurance which is as high as $ 400 per person, per month, will bankrupt these hard working Americans.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

These shifts were spurred by a new American affluence, by the Pill, by the flood of women into the work force, by the destabilization of traditional values during the war in Vietnam, and by a new societal emphasis on self - fulfillment.

As an American Muslim who has worked overseas for the sake of peace, who has siblings (also Muslim) serving in the American Armed Forces, and who doesn't embrace ignorance, intolerance, or blind hatred from any race, religion, or creed, I feel that some of you are missing the mark as fellow human beings.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

The vitality of American churches may owe a great deal to the fact that having so many competing religious traditions has forced each to work hard to attract and hold members.

however this statement actually weakens the «controversial» aspect that He pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.

He pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.

A likely Israeli response to an American ultimatum would be to call the Americans» bluff, withdraw Israeli forces from the West Bank, and let Hamas make short work of the Western - backed Palestinian Authority.

By 1826 they found it expedient to join forces with the larger American Board, so all their magnificent Indian work was united with that of the Board, and the Presbyterians worked as one with the groups supporting the Board.

Turns out the much - ballyhooed and - maligned task force created in the wake of the Americans» third loss in a row two years ago at Gleneagles actually worked.

Beard agrees that students should understand what basic foods are, but says that with more than 60 percent of American women in the work force and a proliferation of fast - food outlets, meals from scratch and tomatoes direct from the farm are not common.

But these days, six of every 10 American women with young children are in the work force, and more and more of them want to supply their babies with mother's milk.

Trump's Republican Party spoke to two groups of American voters: the far right base of the GOP, and to the near two - thirds of Americans who feel the country is heading in the «wrong direction» — many of these will include America's working families, steelworkers and coalminers, bridge - builders and road - pavers, retail workers and restaurant staff to whom the socio - economic forces of globalization and stagnant wages have been woefully unkind.

For that observation we are indebted to the erstwhile Annabel's habitué with four houses, whose best friend was the Duchess of Devonshire, but whose response to being forced to resign over claims he had fast - tracked a visa for his lover's nanny was to tell friends: «The American millionairess has managed to knock out the working - class lad.»

It emerged yesterday that Ms Norgove, who had been kidnapped while doing aid work in Afghanistan, may have been accidently killed by the American task force authorised to rescue her.

The recent elimination of earnings limits for Social Security beneficiaries age 65 - 69 is another factor which will encourage older Americans to remain in or return to the work force.

Wyndham's expertise in this area led the American Psychological Association in late July to invite her to serve on its Task Force on Human Rights established after an April 2015 report asserted that the association had worked with U.S. government officials on its terrorism prisoner interrogation and torture program set up during the George W. Bush administration following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Because of the models» divergent structures, however, making them work together is as challenging as plugging an American appliance into a European socket: it can be done, but it requires a lot of effort and forcing — and, in the case of the model, serious computing power and processing time.

Led by Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality, the task force is currently working to draft a framework for sustainable management of American coastal and ocean resources.