Sentences with phrase «half of unemployed people»

(At least one estimate suggests the TPP will lower the number of unemployed people by 2 % to 5 % in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Mexico.)

For the hundreds of millions of unemployed people around the world, we don't need jobs — we need work.

Treasury awarded funding to 47 states, the District of Columbia, 5 U.S. Territories, and municipalities in 3 states, based on their proportion of unemployed persons as a percentage of the national total.

One is a world in which our economic problems are largely solved, profits are on the mend, and things will soon be back to normal, except for a lot of unemployed people whose fate is, let's face it, of no concern to Wall Street.

The number of unemployed persons declined to 4.3 percent, unchanged from July, and from 4.5 percent in the March - to - May period.

There are two categories of jobless claims — initial, which comprises people filing for the first time, and continuing, which consists of unemployed people who have been receiving unemployment benefits for a while.

A majority of unemployed people have paid EI premiums, but are unable to receive benefits when they happen to be in need.

The presence of large masses of unemployed persons in the cities makes aggressive labor demands impossible and keeps their wages depressed.

They produce a large pool of unemployed people desperate for work.

For this purpose, a budgetary discipline is necessary, accompanied by a social expenses restriction and the restoration of a so - called natural unemployment rate; in other words the creation of a «reserve army of wage earners» (battalions of unemployed people) that allows to weaken the unions.

This little secular community of unemployed people who meet in a church once a week is discovering spiritual truth more deeply than many of them ever had.

The pressure of a work - oriented society combined with the relational dynamics of feelings of rejection and powerlessness pose a real danger to the emotional health of all unemployed people.

Compare this to the Tory agenda of profiteering and wealth protection for those at the top; creating an army of unemployed people to force down pay whilst demonising the vulnerable, setting people against one another and underpinning the whole twisted ideology with a culture of fear, hatred and selfishness.

Mr Miliband told Labour's youth conference on jobs in Warwick that a Labour Budget would introduce a bank bonus tax which would pay the wages of unemployed people.

While we wait on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo's government to make available a database of unemployed people he promised, we can only imagine that the statistics quoted by Dr. Bawumia two years ag has doubled.

«We had 800,000 unemployed when we walked in the door — largest number of unemployed people since the great depression.

Unemployment falls again The number of unemployed people in the UK has fallen by 2.51 million, down by 49,000 during the period July - September this year.

The number of unemployed people is the highest since 1994.

«Richard Graham: Why I, a Conservative parliamentary candidate, am prepared to go to jail Main Alistair Thompson: Next time the country faces a big freeze, battalions of unemployed people should be called upon to clear the streets of snow»

Alistair Thompson on Platform: Next time the country faces a big freeze, battalions of unemployed people should be called upon to clear the streets of snow

Yet there will be a majority of unemployed people who will be left out for availing unemployed health insurance or unemployed medical insurance.

«There were a number of years when there were a high number of unemployed people.

«You're essentially condemning a lot of unemployed people to a much lower standard of living since in these [coal - producing] regions there are no readily available jobs that can offer salaries that compete with a coal mine,» he added.

Take for example, experiment Number 109, where a business owner helps promote the skills of unemployed people to other businesses.

To demonstrate the huge number of unemployed people in Iceland and bring attention to the problem, the group put 12.793 kronas on the pavement in front of The Central Bank of Iceland, with each krona representing an unemployed person.

In January the number of unemployed people in Iceland was 12.793, about 8 % of the population, and it is rising fast.

The news is still full of stories about the large numbers of unemployed people in this country.

With the mass numbers of unemployed people in the U.S., taking the extra steps to enhance your experience and educational excellence can only help land that perfect job.

Bear in mind, these days, a lot of unemployed people are hanging out their shingles to set up shop as resume writers.

A 2010 bulletin from the AARP notes that more than half of unemployed people ages 55 and older were out of work for at least six months.

The unemployment rate in urban China stood at 4.1 percent, and the number of unemployed persons across the country reached 9.2 million.

Wall Street is also full of unemployed people.

However, despite the fact that jobs were added to the economy, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent in October — and has been essentially unchanged since May 2010 — while the number of unemployed persons was also little changed at 14.8 million during the month.

There were inconsistent differences in some sociodemographic factors between our sample and the NATSISS: our sample had higher proportions of unemployed people, but also higher proportions who had completed Year 12 and who lived in more advantaged areas.

Unemployment rate This figure from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is the percentage of unemployed persons actively seeking work.

Meanwhile the ratio of unemployed persons per job openings held its historically low level of 1.1; during the height of the financial crisis, this ratio peaked at 6.6.

Not exact matches

Knowing the number of people who are unemployed is a key way to measure the state of the economy.

The number of people unemployed for more than 26 weeks increased from 6.13 million in December 2009 to 6.31 million in January 2010.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Young people make up around 17 percent of the world's population, experts noted, yet they account for 40 percent of those who are unemployed.

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

While there have been improvements in some labour market indicators, the number of people who have been unemployed for over a year has remained frustratingly high since the end of the recession, as shown in the graph below.

Though there has been improvement in the number of people who have been unemployed for only 27 - 51 weeks, it has not returned to pre-recession levels.

Not surprisingly, they found an inverse relationship between the length of time a person is unemployed and how often a candidate is called in for an interview:

That means millions of people unemployed.

cents Work Opportunity Tax Credit: Both houses extend, through 2010, this tax credit for hiring disadvantaged people to include unemployed veterans and unemployed young people who've dropped out of school and lack basic skills.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Countries like Greece and Italy, that were once the homes of great empires and nation states have in the modern age been laid low by financial crisis, recession and a whole «lost» generation of young people — 40 percent in Italy and almost 52 percent in Greece — who are unemployed.

People pay into this while working and, in the event that they find themselves unemployed, get a good chunk of their former salary — up to a whopping 90 % for the lowest - end jobs — paid out to them for a period of up to two years.

The number of people who were unemployed because they had been laid off actually declined in July.