Sentences with phrase «u.s. job sectors»

The U.S. coal industry has slumped since 2008, and clean energy is now one of the fastest - growing U.S. job sectors.

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The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

A 2016 study examining 78 years of federal minimum wage hikes in the U.S. (between 1938 and 2009) showed no correlation between those increases and job losses, even in sectors most affected by such policies.

These regional supply chains that power America's car sector, aerospace industry, and numerous other advanced manufacturing facilities support 14 million U.S. jobs, many of them the higher - paying ones Trump repeatedly promises to bring back.

Tourism is an enormous sector of the U.S. economy, generating $ 2.1 trillion in economic output and supporting 15.1 million jobs, with international arrivals a key component, according to data from the U.S. Travel Association.

«Our calculations have revealed that the 92 firms in our sample had median job growth during this period of negative 0.74 percent, compared to the 6 percent job - growth rate of U.S. private sector firms as a whole,» said the report.

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.

«Throughout the recession and tepid, uneven economic recovery, the strength and entrepreneurship of the franchise sector has been a consistent job creator for the U.S. economy,» said IFA president & CEO Steve Caldeira in a statement.

The U.S. private sector added 250,000 jobs in December, ADP and Moody's Analytics reported before the opening bell on Thursday.

In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the only sector to show year - over-year job growth as of May was education and health services.

Vinyl Trends sailed through the U.S. downturn — Kuepfer says he was able to hire easily when setting up his factories because so many people in the home building sector were losing their jobs — and picked up customers further afield, in New Zealand and South Korea.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

The small - business sector has historically created two - thirds of net new private jobs in the U.S. economy.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday that the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in June, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 8.2 %, disappointing analysts and driving the stock market downward even though the data showed that all of the new jobs came from the private sector.

There are more than 825,000 franchise establishments across 300 business lines, which employ nearly 18 million people and accounts for one in eight U.S. private - sector jobs.

In many cases, these sectors are vastly outpacing the rest of the U.S. economy in growth and job creation, and are generating more jobs per dollar invested.

Solar created one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year, and the sector now employs more Americans than coal.

Could the contrast be any greater between Romney, who looted American companies and shipped their jobs overseas, only pays taxes at a 13 % rate, stashes his money in the Cayman Islands to avoid U.S. taxes, and President Obama who saved GM and created 30 straight months of private sector job growth?

The U.S. food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry plays a unique role as the single largest U.S. manufacturing employment sector, with 2.1 million jobs in 30,000 communities across the country that deliver products vital to the wellbeing of people in our nation and around world.

In fact, caregiving is projected to be the largest occupation in the U.S. by 2020, with care - sector jobs growing five times faster than other large job sectors.

``... Ultimately Juan Reyes» experience creating jobs as a Giuliani official, working with U.S. Senator Bob Dole and Donald Rumsfeld on national issues, and practicing law in the private sector have prepared him well to take on the special interest in Albany.»

The chart below, based on seasonally adjusted «establishment payroll» data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), depicts the trend of private sector payroll job growth in New York State compared to the nation as a whole since Cuomo took office.

Private sector employment growth in New York State continues to trail the U.S. as a whole, with upstate lagging far behind downstate, according to the latest state Department of Labor (DOL) monthly jobs report.

Year - over-year private - sector job growth in New York remains stronger downstate than upstate, weaker overall than the U.S. average.

«President Obama believes, as I do, that the American private sector, working in partnership with the African business community, and African entrepreneurs can help address many of the continent's most pressing challenges, including creating jobs and opportunity for young people across the continent,» said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

Buffalo Niagara is being recognized nationwide on a growing list of accolades that demonstrate an important change in how Western New York is perceived: in 2010 Forbes Magazine called the region the 10th best place to raise a family; in 2011 Relocate America placed Buffalo Niagara among the top 100 best places to live and The Business Journals reported that Buffalo Niagara had the nation's 18th strongest private sector job growth; and in 2012 the National Association of Home Builders ranked our region among the most affordable major U.S. housing markets.

We are a highly mobile sector, and some had turned down lucrative job offers enticing them to Singapore and the U.S., decisions that some are now regretting.»

If China's interest in the moon rejuvenates our own, the U.S. has the opportunity to stimulate private sector jobs while expanding humanity beyond the Earth, he adds.

His leadership in this arena initiative has been critical to ensuring that federal and state policymakers understand the link between domestic shale gas, the chemical industry and growth in America's manufacturing sector that will drive U.S. competitiveness, boost exports, and create new, high - paying jobs.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics project that the health care sector is projected to grow 18 % from 2016 to 2026, much faster than the average for all occupations, adding about 2.3 million new jobs... more jobs than any other group of occupations.

But according to U.S. News & World Report, each year more than 10 percent of graduates from the top 20 law schools (or more than 700 new lawyers) take jobs in the public sector that offer a median salary of $ 52,000.

In September, the U.S. economy lost 190,000 jobs, but the education sector gained nearly 11,000 jobs.

In sum, CAR noted the auto industry supported some 3.8 percent of all private - sector jobs and has historically accounted for 3 percent to 3.5 percent of U.S. GDP.

«The Obama Administration's bold high - speed rail plan will create jobs, reinvigorate our manufacturing sector and spur economic development for years to come,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Higher gas prices keep people on the job The oil and gas industry is big business in the U.S.; the American Petroleum Institute predicts that the number of jobs in the sector will increase by 1.3 million through 2030.

The U.S. housing market for instance is in recovery mode with the construction sector, one of the largest employers in the country, finally adding jobs.

The two parties tend to agree on the relative importance of economic issues when considering energy policies, with 56 % of Democrats and 59 % and Republicans saying that creating jobs within the energy sector should be a top priority, and 61 % and 71 %, respectively, saying the U.S. should focus most on keeping consumer energy prices low.

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the oil and gas sector currently supports 9.8 million jobs — that's 5.6 percent of total U.S. employment.

«As our nation struggles to recover from the current recession,» the senators wrote, «we are deeply concerned that the pending Clean Air Act boiler MACT regulations could impose onerous burdens on U.S. manufacturers, leading to the loss of potentially thousands of high] paying jobs this sector provides.»

NAFTA also supports U.S. jobs — especially the refining sector, as he mentioned above — by securing access to markets for U.S. products.

«We urge the State Department to do a better job in analyzing the effect that Keystone XL would have on the development of the Canadian tar sands and the additional carbon pollution that would result, as well as the effect that Keystone XL would have on the quantity of carbon pollution produced by the U.S. transportation sector.

This will keep the wind sector on track toward supporting the 500,000 jobs by 2030 projected in a report by the U.S. Department of Energy during the George W. Bush administration.

And the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that Obama's plan will kill jobs in utilities and other sectors while raising costs to U.S. consumers.

While this covers a lot of ground, it basically says that a robust strategy to produce more U.S. oil and natural gas has benefited and will keep benefiting the manufacturing sector — and along with it, job creation and economic growth.

Retail is the nation's largest private - sector employer, supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 42 million working Americans.

A recent study by noted economist and former U.S. Department of Commerce official Dr. Everett Ehrlich determined that the damages reform provisions in the original Senate bill would create 100,000 new high tech jobs and that doing nothing would result in the loss of 150,000 current high technology sector jobs.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts continued above - average job growth for the technology sector over the next several years.

And with the U.S. economy near full employment and millions of jobs open in the private sector, the situation is growing more dire by the day.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cites a blazing 30 percent growth rate for jobs in the financial services and advisory sector, more than five times the national average for job growth in any industry.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics identified professional and business services and education and health services as those economic sectors showing job gains.