Sentences with phrase «creating jobs in the city»

Walker announced the investment days after Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, one of four Democrats vying to oppose Walker in June's recall election, criticized the governor for not doing enough to create jobs in the city.

The candidates also discussed the question of whether to raise taxes on high - income earners, the best means to create jobs in the city and how they would respond to a citywide emergency as mayor.

The former Secretary of State also visited the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus earlier in the day, participating in a roundtable discussion on creating jobs in the city's new economy.

Not exact matches

The work being done to bring entrepreneurship and funding resources to cities like St. Louis and Albuquerque — and in rural communities — isn't just about creating high - paying tech jobs.

«We're creating good jobs in major Canadian cities for young people and we're excited about doing that and so far the customer response to our crews has been very positive,» said Renee Smith - Valade, vice-president customer experience.

As many as 70 new jobs would be created at the outset, and the city would reap the tax benefits of having the facility in town.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

The opening of a 43,000 square foot Northgate Gonzalez supermarket in San Diego's City Heights area, an early FreshWorks investment, created 122 new jobs, for example.

Ride - hailing service Uber inaugurated a support center in Brazil's biggest city on Tuesday with plans to invest 200 million reais ($ 62 million) and create 2,000 jobs, underscoring an aggressive growth strategy in Latin America's biggest nation.

It has become a community hub, part of a corporate commitment the company has embraced to help create jobs and opportunity for towns and cities that might otherwise be overlooked in corporate road maps.

The reality is that all but a very select group of cities are struggling to figure out how to create jobs in a time when companies are less dependent on human beings and traditional industries face technology - and trade - driven disruption.

The company's recent announcement that it will locate a second headquarters somewhere in America and create up to 50,000 jobs has set off a scramble by economic development officials in cities across the country.

In Seattle, Amazon's hometown, the company has created thousands of jobs and jump - started the city's tech ecosystem.

The company called for proposals for the new site, which could create fierce competition among cities eager to bring in new jobs and spur development of their business communities.

Thanks to pockets of investment for things like a new $ 1.2 billion medical center that will spearhead bio-tech research, and a staggering $ 70 billion in federal aid that has gone to rebuilding infrastructure — including a $ 15 billion state of the art levee system — Landrieu says, the city has created 9,100 new jobs since his administration took over in 2010.

We estimate these investments resulted in an additional $ 38 billion to the city's economy from 2010 to 2016 and created more than 50,000 additional jobs on top of our direct hires.»

In Detroit, its efforts have created some 1,700 jobs and seeded more than 100 new businesses since 2014; this fall, the bank will expand the model to multiple cities.

In addition to lenders, cities and other community groups sometimes offer no - or low - interest loans within redevelopment districts to encourage businesses to do such things as improve the façade of their storefront, improve the structural infrastructure of their place of business, or create jobs.

In January, Amazon placed Boston among 20 finalists to host the company's second North American headquarters, and Tuesday's announcement does not preclude the city from contention for the $ 5 billion project that the e-commerce giant has said would create some 50,000 jobs over the next decade.

Venture funding for tech companies in New York City increased by 240 % from 2003 to 2013, and more than 85 % of the sector's current companies and 86 % of its current jobs were created during this time.

Steven Nivin, chief economist of the SABER Research Institute, estimated the celebrations would create 1,300 new jobs, bring 263,000 more visitors in 2018, $ 4 million in tax revenue for Bexar County and the City, $ 8 million in in - kind media coverage, and $ 45 million worth of generated wages and benefits.

«We'll partner with anyone in the world as long they're about making transportation in cities better, creating job opportunities, making it easier to get around, getting pollution out of the air and traffic off the streets,» Kalanick told employees.

Austin and Dallas made the list of the top 20 cities in North America under consideration for the $ 5 billion project, which is expected to create as many as 50,000 jobs.

Although online shopping companies have created hundreds of thousands of jobs, they have not directly made up for the losses at traditional retailers, and the new jobs tend to be concentrated in a small number of large cities.

If the South is so pathetic then why are all of the jobs being created in the South while most of the major cities in the North are going bankrupt.

«HQ2» would be an equal to Amazon's massive Seattle campus and involve a five - billion - dollar capital investment for the chosen city, and «create,» in the parlance of the day, 50,000 high - paying jobs in the area.

And it's easy enough to do because, as people in developing countries leave failing farmland to work in the cities, demand for manufacturing jobs increases, creating fertile ground for exploitation.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (Sept. 21, 2015)-- Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom, a traditional casual dining restaurant known for its delicious, handmade pizza and craft beers, announced today that its newest location is slated to open in Shoal Creek, Mo., at 8251 N. Booth Ave.. The new restaurant, scheduled to open on Oct. 5, will be the city's first location, and will create approximately 120 jobs for the area.

The factory, located in the city of Tres Rios, will create more than 1,000 direct and indirect jobs.

«Expanding our manufacturing footprint in Dallas will not only create many new jobs, but will also strengthen our roots in the city.»

It's easy to see how the 29 - year - old could do a job for this United side, who looked sorely lacking of creativity in their recent defeat to Manchester City, when they failed to get a hold of the ball and create much to trouble their opponents.

It's also why only a few months into the City job, on December 2016, Guardiola himself stated that Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams to attack the back four.

Lyon created 20,000 jobs and 5.3 m square feet of office space, while Japan's comparison data showed an increase in jobs, construction, population and land value in all the cities that had a station.

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

Cardiff Central MP Jenny Willott also welcomed the announcement, saying a regional casino would «bring millions to Cardiff's economy, increase tourism and, most importantly, create several thousands jobs in the city».

Many upstate elected officials have signed on in support of Uber, saying their cities would benefit from the competition to existing cab companies, as well as the jobs the company says it will be creating.

High speed rail could be transformative for New York — with the potential to revitalize Upstate New York's economy with construction jobs now and permanent jobs created by the new high speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the future.

At 12:30 p.m., Hochul highlight the state's investment to create jobs in the film industry, Silvercup Studios East, 34 - 02 Starr Ave., Long Island City, Queens.

It will be Silvercup's third studio in the city (the first two are in Long Island City) and is estimated to create about 400 jobs, according to Cuomo's offcity (the first two are in Long Island City) and is estimated to create about 400 jobs, according to Cuomo's offCity) and is estimated to create about 400 jobs, according to Cuomo's office.

By simply making the City's tolling system fairer — reducing tolls that are too high and adding and restoring tolls where traffic is worst and transit options are plentiful — we can generate the revenue we need to maintain, modernize, and expand our aging transit system and improve our road and bridge network, creating 30,000 + new, local, annually recurring jobs in the process.

«They do believe that I'm the best candidate to create jobs and to do the job in the City Council.»

Preet Bharara's nationally publicized firing from the US Attorney job in Manhattan created some intrigue about his political ambitions and the implications for those he was investigating, like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Higgins says the project would create jobs, continue growth in the downtown area and place Buffalo among other great cities.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

For every 12 net additional jobs created in cities in the South, one was created in cities elsewhere in Britain.

Theresa Villiers is right (TP, Oct), carrying on investing in transport links between and within UK cities will be critical to creating private sector jobs in the difficult years ahead.

Katz said, noting the city needed a comprehensive plan to create more jobs and a dedicated program to keep people facing foreclosure in their homes.

«This ill - conceived legislation threatened some of the most important job - creating projects in the city,» said Julie Wood, a spokeswoman for the mayor.

For each job created through its relocation, Aetna is receiving $ 134,200 in city and state tax breaks.

What we need in New York City is good - paying sustainable jobs, not the low - wage jobs created by Walmart,» Mr. Appelbaum said.