Sentences with phrase «at increasing employment»

A targeted program aimed at increasing employment of a disadvantaged racial group is a clear example of a benefit which promotes equality of opportunity.

A second MDRC monograph, reviewing and synthesizing the relevant research, focused on how policies directed at increasing employment among low - income parents affected their adolescent children.4 Unlike elementary school - aged children, the teenagers fared worse than their control group counterparts.

Non-experimental developmental research would suggest that policies targeted at increasing employment among welfare recipients and sometimes increasing parents» income as well might affect children's development.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the number of people in «vulnerable» employment — such as self - employment — increased, adding to an outlook of the global employment landscape as precarious at best and deteriorating at worst as the global recovery takes time.

If salaries aren't increasing while average rents are at a high rate, you can rest assured that many employees will begin considering other employment opportunities.

The New Orders Index increased 5.3 percentage points to 63 percent, and the Employment Index decreased 2.2 percentage points to 50.5 percent, indicating growth in employment for the fourth consecutive month, but at a slEmployment Index decreased 2.2 percentage points to 50.5 percent, indicating growth in employment for the fourth consecutive month, but at a slemployment for the fourth consecutive month, but at a slower rate.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

Even if you set the issue of employment aside, the U.S. trade deficit over the past five years increased, meaning that the rest of the world was more successful at selling us more stuff than vice versa.

Depending on which period you're looking at, I suppose you can pick out a recent episode in which employment rates in the U.S. increased more than in Canada, but the most striking thing to me in that graph is the much steeper fall in the U.S. employment rate.

At best, increased employment is a small side effect of a corporate tax cut.

Employment provider Programmed hopes to increase the number of indigenous employees in the national workforce by 5,000 within a decade, the company said at an announcement with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Generation One founder Andrew Forrest in Canberra today.

The overwhelming power of business to raise prices at will means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a real wage increase, instead, things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).

For NAFTA countries, free trade has been beneficial, not harmful, as the increase in employment demonstrates: 40 million more people are at work now in Canada, Mexico and the United States as compared with 23 years ago at the start of NAFTA.

They include upwards revisions in economic forecasts, expectation of monetary tightening, rising real and nominal long - term interest rates, fiscal stimulus on a huge scale in a full employment economy, rising protectionism that should choke off import flows, and tax reform directed at reducing capital outflows and increasing capital inflows.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

Over the last year, employment increased by 276,000, a «whopping» total, says Mathieu Arseneau, an economist at National Bank in Montreal.

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

At the same time, most surveys find that businesses are intending to increase their employment further, and that some businesses are already reporting increased difficulty finding suitable labour, although this does not appear to have been reflected in wage expectations at an aggregate leveAt the same time, most surveys find that businesses are intending to increase their employment further, and that some businesses are already reporting increased difficulty finding suitable labour, although this does not appear to have been reflected in wage expectations at an aggregate leveat an aggregate level.

WASHINGTON (MNI)- Gearing up for Friday's U.S. employment report, analysts expect the April report to bounce back after the relatively disappointing March report, expecting a gain of 185,000 for headline payrolls, a 195,000 increase in private payrolls, a 0.1 pp tickdown in the unemployment rate to 4.0 %, a softening in in average hourly earnings (AHE) to a 0.2 % gain, and average weekly hours to remain at 34.5.

Although the increased cost to employers at 1.5 per cent of payrolls is itself quite small, several factors further diminish any possible impact on hiring and employment.

Now instead of sitting at home and complaining about the increasing unemployment rate in the country (sorry but I think conventional employment is a dying trend), you can use your skills to make money from home.

Yes, log export dollars when turned into Lumber would increase the export dollars by at least 48 % while retaining and increasing domestic employment.

At the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobAt the current point in the recovery from the 2001 recession, employment at all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobat all levels of government had increased by nearly 600,000 workers; in contrast, in the current recovery, government employment has declined by more than 700,000 jobs, a net difference of more than 1.3 million jobs.

In the past few years, a measurable downturn in Canadian manufacturing jobs has lent credence to the suspicion that increased FDI has a negative impact on employment at home.

In contrast, employment in NSW has been increasing more slowly than elsewhere since early 2003 and is presently growing at around trend rates.

The labour market remained firm in the March quarter, with employment posting further large increases and the unemployment rate remaining at its lowest level since the 1970s.

Full - time employment has been increasing at around the same rate as the total over the past year, recovering from an earlier period of around 18 months without growth.

A strong increase in the December quarter was only partly reversed in the March quarter, and vacancies remain at a level which in the past has been consistent with solid employment growth.

Still, when you couple this absence of increased credit with the lack of evidence that QE worked the way the Fed thought it would, you would be forgiven for wondering whether QE had any significant impact on output and employment at all.

The programme is primarily aimed at carrying out regional campaigns to improve labour productivity and boost employment and helping the participating businesses to increase their workforce productivity by at least 30 per cent.

The reason is that minimum wage workers tend to spend at minimum wage paying outlets, so an increase in the minimum need not reduce, and sometimes increases minimum wage employment.

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

CBN Manufacturing PMI Index for the month of December 2015 shows production level and new orders are growing at a slower rate, raw material inventories (unused raw materials) increasing at a faster rate, supplier delivery time declining at a faster rate, and employment level decreasing at a slower rate.

«We'll see what happens,» said Diaz, speaking at a press conference on the steps of City Hall to call on de Blasio to increase funding in the budget for the city's Summer Youth Employment program by an additional $ 80 million.

Ms. Rose said she was happy with the inclusion of several priorities in the mayor's budget - like increased funds for senior case management, anti-gun initaitives, summer youth employment and science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at city colleges.

Michael Saltsman, research director at the Employment Policies Institute, says New York's recent minimum wage increases are already costing the state jobs.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

Okunmadewa explained that the YESSO programme was a welfarist intervention programme of the World Bank aimed at reducing poverty by allowing poor people access to increased opportunities for youth employment and social service delivery.

Malloy and Lockheed Martin Corp., the parent company of Sikorsky, announced Tuesday that the helicopter maker will increase its full - time employment in Connecticut, now at about 7,600, to more than 8,000 by the end of the 14th year of the agreement.

According to his letter of employment, if Kaloyeros chose to step down from his presidential role, he may return as a tenured professor of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Poly, with his pay resuming at the same rate as when he left the role (with any increases that had been negotiated for members of the United University Professions union in the interim).

«Phil employs at least 37 people and during holiday periods, that employment increases significantly,» Brown said.

John Harding, employment tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said businesses needed to prepare for a «significant increase» in staff costs.

The Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkley published a paper this week that concludes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage would cause a modest 0.04 percent increase in employment across the statEmployment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkley published a paper this week that concludes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 15 an hour minimum wage would cause a modest 0.04 percent increase in employment across the statemployment across the state by 2021.

It's impossible at once, as the organisation put it, «to directly raise the incomes of the poor, increase the employment of the poor and reduce welfare spending».

Last week, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrandannounced key provisions from their legislation to help increase employment among at - risk youth passed Congress as part of a bipartisan, bicameral deal — the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)-- which reauthorizes federal job -LSB-...]

Big pharma employment shrank 4.8 percent, while there was a 3.6 percent increase in jobs at research, testing, and medical labs.

«For sixteen consecutive months we have seen increases in the employment - to - population ratio for people with disabilities,» noted John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability research at Kessler Foundation.

You can look at the company and see if there is something you can do to improve company performance or increase your value at work, get your resume up to date, trim your household expenses, look at other employment opportunities, investigate ways to supplement your income (like selling things on Trade Me), and encourage your family to join together in an economising mode.

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website