Sentences with phrase «dropping out of the work force»

Or am I too old at this point to be dropping out of the work force for 18 months and leaving a good job?

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You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labour force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time employment.

Instead, the downtick in the headline employment number is due to job seekers becoming so discouraged that they stop looking for work and drop out of the labour force measurement all together.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

Prime - age white working - class males have increasingly dropped out of the full - time work force, and the same males are dramatically more likely to be in prison now than in 1960.

Not surprisingly, teenagers growing up with only one parent are at greater risk of dropping out of school, of having a child of their own during the teen years, and of being neither in school nor in the work - force during young adulthood.

The game of trying to drop the kick in between the 5 and the goal line and force the other team to return it while you attempt get them behind the 25 yard line does not seem to work consistently enough to make up for the kicks out of bounds, kicks that don't go far enough, and times when the coverage doesn't get the guy down short of the 25, and the injury risk that is being taken by covering the play.

In a country where mothers are practically forced to work out of the home, infants and toddlers are dropped off at massive daycare centers from morning til evening and kindergartens run until 3:30 in the afternoon....

Ms. Maertz, a litigating attorney for the GEICO insurance company, was chosen by Democrats to face off against Mr. LaValle after former Democratic and Working Families Party candidate Regina Calcaterra was forced to drop out of the race because she had registered to vote in Pennsylvania for part of the last five years.

Without their parents around, Darry is forced to turn down a college scholarship to take care of his brothers; Sodapop drops out of high school to work in a gas station; and Ponyboy... well, he learns what it means to stay gold.

1.2 million students drop out of high school each year and are forced to find work in a job market that, more and more often, requires a college degree or at the very least; a high school diploma.

I studied politics and psychology at Trent University with a twist; I initiated / completed my time / degree therein whilst in my mid to late thirties... well after having been working within the reality of the work force from my mid teens (when I quit school... I was a grade ten drop - out).