Sentences with phrase «cut numbers of workers»

At the same time real household incomes have stagnated, corporations have cut numbers of workers and shipped jobs overseas, causing many people to be un - or underemployed.

Not exact matches

A Qualcomm spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that both full - time and temporary workers will be affected by the layoffs, without citing the specific number of full - time and contract workers that will be cut.

The number of workers who will lose out if countries are cut off from America far exceeds the number who stand to gain from the pending tariffs.

Thanks to all those hydro workers, the number of people without power has now been cut to a fraction of those knocked off the grid a few days ago, but many remain, shivering in their homes.

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev John Sentamu, has called on the government to cut the number of low - paid workers by one million.

«I didn't think I was going to have to do things on this scale,» says Claypool, who oversees a Park District budget of $ 313 million and a staff that - after the latest round of cuts - numbers 3,500 full - time and 3,000 seasonal workers.

That's why he should be asking what exactly is going on with Solar City Riverbend and how it is possible that — with no public announcement — SUNY Research Foundation approved Solar City's request to cut the number of factory workers to only 500 from the original 1,460.

He wants the government to make it a «goal» to cut the number of low paid workers by one million by 2020.

When Gov. Mario Cuomo announced in 1984 that he would slash his personal staff by 10 percent, he did not actually cut the number of employees reporting to him — instead adding dozens of workers to state agency budget lines.

Cuomo went on to attribute the state's $ 10 billion deficit to chronic overspending by the Legislature and announced a number of fiscal austerity measures, including a salary freeze on public workers and drastically cutting Medicaid spending.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

First, there have been significant increases both in the extent of low - paid work as well as the number of people moving from low benefit income into low - paid jobs and being parked there; second, cuts have been imposed upon benefits and tax credits claimed by this same group of low - paid workers»

In light of this, Andrea Marina Alma and colleagues tested whether the leaf - cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis reduces the problems imposed by Patagonia's strong winds by increasing the number of workers that are better able to deal with this environmental factor (i.e., larger ants).

Fifty - eight percent of white respondents without a college degree would cut the number of skilled - worker visas, while just 37 percent of white respondents with a college degree would do so.

Besides video - based learning programs for cutting and polishing related activities, a number of gemology based training centers also train workers in appraising and grading that help these workers move up the ladder in their careers.

A growing number of the city's workers are opting to walk to work to avoid the daily traffic scramble and to cut air pollution caused by vehicle emissions.

Policy changes to workers» compensation have increased claims denials and cut benefits, forcing an increasing number of injured workers onto taxpayer - funded social assistance.

A source of this abuse is the incessant demand to cut costs by reducing the number of workers and replacing highly skilled medical personnel with cheaper, less trained ones.

The Times profiles a wide range of interested parties with criticisms of the bill, ranging from insurers (concerned that costs will not actually be cut sufficiently to warrant reentry into the market), various medical providers including chiropractors («At present, there are no limits on the number of times injured workers can visit a chiropractor.

Louis and Ryan discuss the impact of the earthquake and tsunami on the world economy; inflation, interest rates, the Fed and Bank of Japan action and the U.S. budget negotiations; the profile of home purchasers today; the paradox of government intervention to make «homes affordable for everyone»; the direction of the rental market, rent vs. buy ratios; the comparison of Fed action during the Volker years vs the Bernanke era; Charlie Sheen, oil prices; the direction of the dollar and other currencies race to the bottom; the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency; the abandonment of the gold standard; the fate of fiat currencies; Utah's gold standard push; the actions states are taking to cut spending; the price of gold and silver and their role as stores of value; real estate vs. gold and silver as investments; the impact of shadow inventory on general inventory; the impact of the numbers of government workers and their salaries on the D.C. area housing market.