Sentences with phrase «high job losses»

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«This new carbon tax will make almost every single Alberta family poorer, while accelerated plans to shut down coal plants will lead to higher power prices and further jobs losses.»

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

Automakers have argued that the rules could result in the loss of up to 1 million jobs because consumers could be less willing to buy the more fuel efficient vehicles since their engineering will result in higher price tags.

Economic theory offers a perfectly reasonable assumption: a higher minimum wage leads to job loss.

«It is disrupting the lives of many Canadians, whether through job losses or through higher prices for imported goods.

While there have been studies, such as the Card and Krueger study referenced by the CUPE report that show little or no job loss from a higher minimum wage, other studies have found instances where raising the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment.

However, as long as there is not significant job loss or reduction in economic growth, there does not appear to be a great deal of harm in having a higher minimum wage even if the benefits are relatively modest.

There is a real risk of job loss due to a higher minimum wage.

The same goes for people who are contemplating leaving higher paying, stable jobs to go work for startups which may have no 401 (k) plan or most definitely have no 401 (k) matching benefit since most startups are loss making.

Using PSID data from 1976 through 2003, we find that households that experience an involuntary job loss reduce their consumption more if they live in states with higher bankruptcy exemptions.

Ontario could ask for a few dollars per barrel for allowing Alberta oil to transit East... That would help a bit to reduce its $ 15 billion annual deficit and somehow compensate for the high $ Can and the loss of manufacturing jobs...

LONDON (Reuters)- World stocks were set for their biggest weekly loss since the middle of March on Friday, while the dollar hovered near highs hit on its recent rally as investors awaited jobs data from the United States.

«My job, as manager and fellow owner, is to allocate the vehicle's capital to produce the highest absolute return on invested capital while minimizing the risk of permanent loss of capital» Michael Burry

Further to the unemployment figures, the birth / death ratio should have been 113,000 job losses higher or about 350,000.

Now that the government is planning for an $ 8 billion cut,  the potential job losses could drive job losses to between 99,000 and 108,000 full time positions across Canada. At this much higher level, the federal government could be single - handedly responsible for pushing national unemployment from its current 7.5 % to 8.0 %.

But data from the nonprofit Center for Automotive Research suggests a 35 percent tariff on imported vehicles would lead to the loss of 6,700 auto industry jobs in the United States due to higher costs.

Even as those projects bring prospective jobs, the Solar Energy Industries Association pointed to the potential job losses from the suspension or termination of solar projects because of higher costs.

Nonetheless, Canadians trying to imagine how a broad economic downturn could play out should pay attention to what's happening on the Prairies, where high house prices, soaring personal debt levels and an unexpected wave of job losses proved to be a toxic mix.

The good news is that non-financial employment has now recouped 95 % of the recession job loss and is now literally two months away (390k) from attaining a new all - time high.

Have these countries been subjected to «significant loss» of high tech jobs, and found themselves unable to compete with foreign competition within their own borders?

«After careful review of the FairPlay proposal, we believe that it will lead to significant loss of high - wage, high - tech jobs in our industry and other industries that are directly or indirectly supported by our industry.

In others where a mere accusation can lead to a loss of job and destruction of reputation, it is a disadvantage to be white and in a high profile position.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The report lists conflict, violence, the near - destruction of historically Christian towns in the Nineveh Plains of Northern Iraq, other people emigrating, loss of community, higher prices, and a lack of job and education opportunities as driving factors in the exodus.

But in government the Coalition faces the reality of manufacturers on the brink because of the sustained high Australian dollar and cheap imports, and is battling to reconcile its determination to pare back government spending and avoid «propping up» industries unsustainable in the longer term, with every government's reluctance to preside over the loss of jobs.

It involves the deliberate loss of rear wheel control, enabling drivers with the right combination of speed, accuracy, fearlessness, and disdain for the longevity of their tires, paint jobs, and mortal souls to send their cars skidding sideways at high speeds, perpendicular to their tires, two or more cars traveling the same course at the same time, not racing, but earning style points.

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

Indications of such a trend have been identified by some in recent elections in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump): voters disenchanted with globalised competition and fearing of job or status loss are seen to have voted in particularly high numbers for Brexit and Trump and against the established order.

In my case it's quite simple - the only thing that the Climate Camp fools can possibly achieve is the further loss of high quality working class jobs.

Many perceived Clinton's symbol as too elitist and far removed from rural, White America hit by Obamacare's high health premiums, loss of jobs due to globalisation, and fear of terrorism.

The right - wing, and GOP, opposition to a $ 15 per hour minimum is based largely on the potential loss of jobs with wages this high.

A previous study showing that a compulsory living wage would result in 160,000 job losses overestimated the threat of job losses and failed to take into account the economic stimulus that higher pay would give the economy, according to Reed.

Under Cuomo we have the highest taxes, and record job losses.

A massive 67 percent minimum wage increase, which would lead to job losses, higher costs of goods and increased property taxes, will devastate small businesses and family farms, particularly Upstate.»

Cuomo said the high - tech sector hasn't replaced or retrained manufacturing workers who have suffered job losses.

As more states, and even some cities, have inched their wages up at different rates in the last two decades, job loss does happen in places with higher minimum wages among the very people who are the hardest to employ, according to Richard Valentine Burkhauser, a professor in Cornell University's College of Human Ecology and an adjunct scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

Burkhauser's study didn't explore why this happens, and he said the job loss does not necessarily mean that work migrates from the higher - paying states to the lower - paying ones.

«It's not an exaggeration to say that the loss of insurance of insurance for millions, decreased stability of health care providers, jobs losses and higher taxes are among the outcomes that would allow implementation of this bill,» said the providers in the joint letter.

However, the decision has been met with stiff opposition from workers of ECG who have claimed that the concession will lead to the loss of jobs and high electricity tariffs.

The socioeconomic section of the SGEIS faced a huge amount of criticism when it was released because it concentrated on positive economic impacts while not giving any estimates of costs incurred to municipalities or the state or any treatment of the socioeconomic stresses seen in other areas where wide - spread drilling has occurred, such as higher rents, noise, higher crime rates, increased traffic, and loss of jobs in other sectors.

The last week of September, the Sikorsky division of United Technologies — a HUGE defense contractor that makes, among other things, the Army and Navy's workhorse Black Hawk helicopter — announced the closing of its plant in Big Flats and the loss of 570 high - wage, high - skill union jobs.

«The balance we have sought to strike is that it must not be too low, so that it doesn't affect the lowest paid workers, but not too high that it leads to massive job losses,» Ramaphosa told a news conference.

Gains in sectors that pay high wages, primarily in businesses located in the Capitol region, have been largely offset by job losses in Central New York and the Southern Tier.

Has he seen where we are economically - the loss in jobs, the highest taxes, the highest regulatory burden, some of the highest energy costs in the nation?»

Already, there are reported cases of some foreign investors exiting our capital market, job losses which may further compound the high unemployment rate, the closure of public sector department in the banks, among other measures being adopted by the operators of the private sector to remain afloat.

A loss of those jobs could be disastrous for Oswego County, whose unemployment rate is among the highest in the state.

Seneca County is among 50 entities that make up the Minimum Wage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of living.

Losing touch with reality puts schizophrenic patients at high risk of job loss, illness, homelessness, and suicide.

The authors compared job loss rates during middle and high school years with college attendance rates a few years later, at 19 years of age.

Nicely wrapped into each diet pill and every weight loss regime is the promise that if you were thinner, your life would be better — you would be happier — you would have that perfect relationship or the most satisfying and high paying job.