Sentences with phrase «government jobs program»

Couldn't you describe universal pre-K as a government jobs program that employs thousands of upstate New Yorkers?

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The Australian Institute of Geoscientists has appealed to the federal government for the inclusion of the geoscientist profession on the list of jobs to which labour market testing applies under the 457 visa program.

«She saw that opportunity, and she was able to use government programs and services [to access international markets],» explains Chagger, whose job it is to ensure more of these small firms can find success.

The new Canada Job Grant program will see federal and provincial governments together pick up two - thirds of training costs of up to $ 15,000 per worker.

While some observers see the plan as yet another way in which the provinces are pressuring the federal government to expand CPP, Ontario's opposition Progressive Conservatives have already condemned the program as a «job - killing payroll tax.»

After bouncing between different computer programming jobs (he discovered his bent for programming at college, and reportedly carried a manual around with him), he secured a gig at Ampex, a firm that did contracts for the U.S. government, in the mid-1970s.

The budget proposal also included plans to eliminate duplicative energy programs and wasteful spending to help get «federal government out of the way and allow the private sector to do its job and flourish.»

Do you think the U.S. government's stimulus programs have helped create or at least preserve jobs?

To tap into broader talent networks at lower cost, HNM is now working with work - force development agency CareerSource Central Florida, which offers a government - subsidized, on - the - job training program.

The program isn't perfect — outsourcing companies often grab a huge share of the 65,000 temporary visas the government awards annually and then use them to fill low - level jobs.

Utilities do a pretty good job of trying to promote new programs, but you almost need to have a PR campaign by the government, or go door - to - door, knocking, to tell these guys about the deals.

McGowan said the government must scrap low - wage jobs from the program and suspend its use for medium to high - skilled workers pending an investigation by the auditor general.

A report released by the Labor Department in 2016, called the «Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation,» concluded that the federal government's primary job - training programs don't really work.

The Alberta government, meanwhile, has been fighting a losing battle to keep upgrader jobs in the province with its BRIK (Bitumen Royalty in Kind) program, whereby it accepts bitumen from producers in lieu of cash royalties and has signed a supply agreement with a «merchant» refiner (without production of its own) to build an upgrader to process it.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

«That's why we put forward a budget that speaks to strategic investments in economic growth and job creation, while at the same time transforming government by achieving our savings targets and limiting program spending growth to 1.1 per cent.»

Our Government will complete reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to ensure that Canadians always have the first chance at available jobs.

The program started in 2007 and is made available to qualifying workers, like teachers, military personnel, nurses, and firefighters, who hold a job in a non-profit organization or the government.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, Infosys ranked first with 6,269 H - 1B petitions approved by the government, and Tata ranked second with 6,193... these leading offshore outsourcing firms use the H - 1B program to replace American workers and to facilitate the offshoring of American jobs... they don't use the H - 1B visa as a way to alleviate a shortage of STEM - educated U.S. workers; they use it primarily to cut labor costs.»

Moreover, there is growing anxiety that technology developments on the near horizon will crush the jobs of the millions who drive cars and trucks, analyze medical tests and data, perform middle management chores, dispense medicine, trade stocks and evaluate markets, fight on battlefields, perform government functions, and even replace those who program software — that is, the creators of algorithms.

Levin, who retired from his job as a real estate attorney at age 49, is not the sort to pine for big government programs.

Moreover, in Europe, Italy's new Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has taken a different tack than his French neighbors by acknowledging that sustainable growth does not come from government spending programs but rather from policies such as labor market flexibility, job training and simplification of Italy's archaic civil justice system.

Jean says «Without question, the biggest Alberta - based job - creation program that can be conceived of by any level of government over the next decade is building pipelines to get our products to tidewater.»

After forty years of successfully partnering with community organizations and municipalities to create good student jobs, the PC government axed the program in 2013.

With the intention of showing that there is an alternative to the 9 to 5 indoctrination, I have decided to interview 10 people who have taken control of their own lives, 10 people who don't care about minimum wage nor government social programs because they have created their own jobs.

But the First Amendment does not, I believe, preclude government funds going to faith - based programs that offer public goods (e.g., health care, job training, education) that the society wants the government to fund.

It's hard to find a policy with a more consistent track record of failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.

America needs to ween itself from this huge government jobs bailout and invest in positive investments like infastructure, Space exploration, subsidizing more clean energy programs and manufactures, changing our energy grid to be more flexible to different kinds of input, and education.

We have allowed government and university laboratories to become a welfare program for the middle class while the technical products of our discoveries take away jobs from the poor.

The FBO can make it clear to government and to potential participants that its program contains these three elements and competes for a contract to underwrite the computer class and the job placement work.

The 500,000 temporary Census jobs that temporarily swelled the employment numbers are a minor distortion compared to a stealth government make - work program at least twice the size of the Census, uncovered by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin.

With the government providing non-repayable finance support to Calbee, the Japanese company has escalated its ambitions, committing to a # 10 million investment program that will create 108 full time jobs in Deeside Enterprise Zone.

On the contrary, in the 1910s and 20s, even before the modern welfare state, people not just felt invested in government programs — they thought the job of the government was to give advice.

A trial court in Rensselaer County has thrown out a union challenge to a pair of programs started by Cuomo — the Empire and Excelsior Service fellowships — that recruits young professionals and those just getting out of school, to work at high level jobs in state government for two year periods.

I know that looks like I'm picking holes guys but I think that's fundamentally the problem with yesterday's march - there IS a credible, evidence based alternative to the government's program but it's complex & naunced, and it will still involve significant cuts & jobs loses which many people marching yesterday still wouldn't accept.

With this background, our government is proposing a new jobs program, the Nation Builders Corps, to focus on graduate unemployment.

After completion you are left to your fate to battle your stars for employment but our junior in colleges who are all affiliated to our universities and are undertaking 3 years program get automatic entry into the job market which is facilitated by government and the GHS.

Goldsmith's most recent job as as director of the Innovations in American Government Program and as the Daniel Paul Professor of Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

The state's «population decline, economic stagnancy, failed jobs programs, highest tax burden in the nation, broken transit system, emboldened culture of corruption, secret government & [Cuomo's] closest aide convicted for selling the office all challenge» the gov's boast, tweeted Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (R), who hopes to unseat Cuomo in November.

Proposals for a second term included a «minority job voucher program» and a «faith based office in the state government... to provide resources» to» faith based organizations.»

«In 2006, the Erie County legislature passed what is called the New York State Certified Training Program, which is often known as the apprenticeship law... It ensures taxpayer dollars that are paying for construction jobs associated with Erie County government are going towards Erie County residents who are working on these projects.

The budget laws creating the program say qualifying projects must meet two main objectives: Each proposal must save or add jobs, or it must pay for a capital expense for a government entity.

«The way I like at it is there's this enormous temptation by the state government to try to control the economy — to use state grants, which is essentially our tax money — and different types of rules and regualtions and fancy programs with fancy titles to try to act like politicians create jobs.

Due to the fact many services provided by the County of Erie, State of New York are fully or partially paid for by the federal government, on March 16, 2017 County Executive Mark Poloncarz ordered certain commissioners and heads of departments that rely on federal funding to review the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint and provide a report on the expected impact of it on Erie County services, including, but not limited to, the identification of any programs impacted by the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint (including the expected cut in funds received), possible reduction in direct county jobs as a result of any cut, impact on third parties that receive funds from Erie County that are received from the federal government, as well as any other known impact.

The study is titled ALICE for «Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed,» a designation that describes working families struggling to get by on low - wage jobs, but who have household incomes too high to qualify for many government assistance programs.

The federal government's investigation into contracting for the state's «Buffalo Billion» economic development program won't hurt job creation, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters on Tuesday in western New York.

«Unions and the working poor have opportunities to come together and create a society where everybody has an opportunity for a good, solid - paying Living Wage job and everybody has an opportunity to reap the benefits of the social programs that are administered by government and particularly by the State of New York,» Peoples - Stokes explained.

He said several acres of farmlands under the government's planting for food and jobs program were washed.

To build on the Cleaner, Greener Communities initiative, Governor Cuomo in August announced the Clean Energy Communities program with $ 16 million available to help local governments implement clean energy actions, save energy costs, create jobs and improve the environment.