Sentences with phrase «about this labor of»

After joining this club and meeting so many women and hearing their stories, I've noticed there's something extra special about this labor of love and the women who do it.

Screenwriter Lucinda Coxon is in LA to talk about her labor of love, The Danish Girl.

Albers, in her writings and art, as well as in her life story, has helped me think about the labor of domestic and industrial textile workers, the politics of romantic involvement with an established artist, and the complexities of being a Jewish refugee living in mid-century America.

Not exact matches

Most full - time employees work about 8.6 hours, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, millennials born in the 1980s will have about six jobs by the time they're 26.

Two percent of U.S. job - holders, or about 2.8 million workers, left their jobs under their own volition in September, the Labor Department said.

The majority of the panel — made up of about 70 industry, labor, and law enforcement experts — agreed that technology already exists or will soon come to market that can track small drones at low altitudes.

In the words of pricing strategist Tim Williams, «Clients don't care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.»

Meanwhile, there were only about 2,000 more new hires in the month of April, according to the Labor Department, leaving the hiring rate unchanged at 3.4 % for the third month in a row.

Opinions and assertions about the condition of the US labor force are also offered by financial market participants, advisors, economists, and academics.

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

WA Labor says it will spend $ 45.5 million to bring new services to Royal Perth Hospital if it wins the March state election, while the Liberals say they will use about $ 83 million from the partial sale of Western Power to build three new Tafe facilities.

«This quarter's findings reveal strong optimism about future prospects for the industry,» said Jennifer Scanlon, president and chief executive officer of USG Corporation, «and also highlight a real need to address ongoing concerns about skilled labor shortages and the impact it has on building in the U.S..»

«The real importance of the agreement that have to do with labor, with the environment, he doesn't talk about.

Since Trump's electoral victory, various surveys of consumer confidence have shown that Americans» optimism about the labor market has improved.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one - third of the average American's budget goes towards housing.

Anna - Marie Baisden, head of autos research at BMI Research, speaks about the labor union reception to Volkswagen's incoming chief executive Herbert Diess.

Sheila Montgomery Mills, who is a senior project manager of design and construction for the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex in Alabama and has also run her own company, says now is the time to think about any skills gaps you might have, both in your business and in the local labor pool.

Right now, labor costs in each of our restaurants average about 26 percent of revenue.

While consumers may have also benefitted from the stock market's Trump rally via their holdings in mutual funds and 401 (k) s, it didn't quite translate to their paychecks: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS), U.S. workers earned a median wage of about $ 43,380.48 in 2016 — a 2.8 % raise, or $ 1,214.65.

While about two - thirds of the world's illiterate adults are female, research shows that educated mothers are more likely to participate in the labor force.

Financial services jobs peaked out in late 2006 at about 8.4 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

About 80 percent of the workforce has a job that requires no physical labor.

If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country.

Our old professor was a bit more upset about it, though, partly because the college milks those guys more than a Libyan trafficking gang (albeit the access to the labor market is a lot better at the end of the process).

Kelly said that SWAPA's statement and vote of no confidence was «part of a labor negotiations playbook,» and not about the reasons that they had listed.

Erudite enough to write reviews for The New York Times and to quote Wallace Stevens from memory, he also had a strong affinity for physical labor and a history of writing stories for and about men.

CNN reported that Puzder has had «second thoughts» about accepting the nomination as secretary of labor.

Here's what the U.S. Department of Labor wrote about snow days in a pair of opinion letters.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

While it's too soon to know what economic effect the strike might have, significant participation could make an impact — after all, women make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force and influence about 73 % of all household spending.

The «United States Department of Labor Employment Situation Summary» is one many pundits care about.

Even though any ruling would for now be restricted to McDonald's, other franchisers might decide to change their business models and end franchising over worries about even the potential of labor issues.

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Indeed, according to a recent study conducted by my company, Xero, about 11.4 million workers - or nearly one - third of the full - time labor force in the U.S. - are using platforms like Uber, Upwork, Freelancer.com, and others.

But the IRS and the Department of Labor are actually more concerned about the level of control exercised over a worker, said Sarah Maxfield, co-founder and manager of Xero partner ArtsPool, an administrative co-op for nonprofit arts organizations.

Trump's advisers and cabinet picks, including Secretary of Labor nominee Andy Puzder, have generally been outspoken about their desire to roll back financial regulations.

'' [Barnes & Noble] has been reviewing all aspects of the business, including our labor model,» a spokeswoman told CNBC about the layoffs.

Randy Babbit, Southwest Airlines» senior vice president of labor relations, told Fortune in a statement that SWAPA's vote of no confidence is not about any of the reasons outlined in Weaks» statement.

According to the «Full Participation Report,» about 55 percent of women globally are part of the labor force, compared with 82 percent of men, and the gap between men and women has not changed significantly since 1995.

By comparison, the coal industry employs about 66,000 people, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) recent finalized data from October 2015.

Travis Steffen of Cyber Superpowers suggests a much more targeted and labor - intensive approach: «If I were a recent grad, I'd think about the organization I'd kill to be a part of.

Because I read about high levels of unemployment and watch the occupiers protest in city after cit, but see countless «help wanted» signs at fast food restaurants and elsewhere looking for unskilled labor.

I think discussions about «jobs» make a lot more sense if you think of «jobs created» as «increase in the demand for labor» and «jobs lost» as «decrease in the demand for labor».

Our biggest businesses complain about a shortage of skilled labor.

Greater attention to treating children with language disorders, such as stuttering, also drives demand for these professionals, about half of whom are employed by schools, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Treasury yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns about rising interest rates and coming labor - market data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.

And however some owners feel about Goodell, it's going to be hard in an era of huge NFL wealth to slash his compensation... particularly when the contract extension is going to cover the next labor negotiations, which could be hugely rancorous.