Sentences with phrase «high levels of unemployment»

It is safe to say few people want to move to a region experiencing high levels of unemployment, which is one factor we measure to gauge a city's overall prosperity.

While many cities are bouncing back quickly from high levels of unemployment, a number actually lost ground over the year, resulting in more unemployed folks competing for jobs in those areas.

When coupled with the relatively high levels of unemployment in the Russian oil and gas sector, what this means is that, with many major projects on hold in Russia and CIS states, workers are being tempted to consider positions in regions where skilled workers are in high demand.

Much of europe is facing high levels of unemployment and or low wages.

> 1980 - 1982 — The early 1980s recession affected much of the developed world, triggering long - term effects including high levels of unemployment and bankruptcies.

This includes realities such as relatively high levels of unemployment, especially among young workers, increased labour strife and stagnating income levels.

Because I read about high levels of unemployment and watch the occupiers protest in city after cit, but see countless «help wanted» signs at fast food restaurants and elsewhere looking for unskilled labor.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

«Major declines in house prices and the continuing high level of unemployment are reflected in the various measures of household debt and credit.

David Cameron can ignore high levels of unemployment like their predecessors did.

Additionally, he says, recent research has found high levels of unemployment and underemployment as well as poorer work productivity among adults who had childhood ADHD than among those who did not.

We find that states that experienced larger recessionary budgets cuts (but not higher levels of unemployment or poverty) experienced a decline in NAEP scores that is most pronounced in the 2015 NAEP (see lower panel of Figure 2)-- further evidence that recessionary school spending cuts did indeed lower student achievement.

From the Preface There are many things to be concerned about in the world, from persistently high levels of unemployment and widening inequality to continued resource depletion, rising pollution, increasing biodiversity losses, and widespread poverty.

That translates into higher levels of unemployment.

«Key challenges facing South Africa is are extremely high levels of unemployment, structural poverty and inequality, and the question we need to address is how we resolve these critical issues through the process of land reform.

In London, the 2012 Olympics site is being created in a former industrial area with high levels of unemployment that has been cut off from the rest of the city by freeways.

«The intent of the gaming statute was to benefit economically distressed Upstate areas experiencing high levels of unemployment,» Geran said in a statement.

In that example, a credit boom and bubble - like asset price dynamics took hold and only a very high setting of real interest rates ultimately curtailed that, but at the cost of a historically high level of unemployment.

The early 1980s recession affected much of the developed world, triggering long - term effects including high levels of unemployment and bankruptcies.

High levels of unemployment and segregation, cuts to federal anti-poverty programs, and a lack of affordable housing meant that racial tensions were already high when the riots broke out.

Studies, in fact, have linked high rates of home ownership to high levels of unemployment, suggesting that homeowners are less willing or able to relocate to find work.

And it shows that old, young, female and black low - skilled workers face the highest levels of unemployment after a minimum wage increase.

By: Kimberley Smuts 20th January 2017 Zimbabwe, a country which is facing a food security disaster, high levels of unemployment, skilled and semiskilled emigration and a cash - starved economy, having issued its own bond notes in November to solve its liquidity crisis, is leading Africa in lithium production.

A CNBC analysis of county - level voting and jobless data shows that, in the past six presidential elections, counties with higher levels of unemployment has generally favored Democratic candidates.

High levels of unemployment have in turn generated an increase in public spending, mostly due to the kicking in of automatic stabilisers like unemployment benefits.

High levels of unemployment are usually typical of a struggling economy, where labour supply is outstripping demand from employers.

«But weak wage growth and high levels of unemployment will continue to be a brake on household spending.»

The looming cuts will saddle an entire generation of working people with high levels of unemployment.

Chief executive Mike Smith warned: `' In the current economic climate and with high levels of unemployment, this will be devastating news for thousands of disabled people and their families.....

Moving the motion, NASUWT President Paula Roe, said: «Under the Coalition Government, women, young people and black and minority ethnic groups face the highest levels of unemployment for years, the gender pay gap is widening and there is evidence of increased homophobia and racism within our society.

Those communities have taken the full force of austerity... Those areas that have the deepest poverty, the highest levels of unemployment have also had the biggest cuts in central government support.»

The chairman of the state Gaming Commission — which must approve the casino licenses — noted Friday that state voters in 2013 authorized the new casinos to «benefit economically distressed upstate areas experiencing high levels of unemployment.»

Is it still a wonder why Enugu tops the chart in the comity of states with the highest level of unemployment?

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, says considering the economic hardships, widespread corruption, rising cost of living, and the high levels of unemployment, it comes as no surprise to him that Ghanaian youth are angry, hungry and have given up any hope of the country offering them a bright future.

Many stakeholders have bemoaned the high levels of unemployment in the country, and the prevailing lack of job opportunities.

Still, Africa's goal of astronomical ascendancy faces serious challenges, including many African countries» high levels of unemployment, poverty, poor education and lack of investment in science.

Eileen Chou, a public policy professor at the University of Virginia, and her collaborators began by analyzing a data set of 33,720 U.S. households and found that those with higher levels of unemployment were more likely to purchase over-the-counter painkillers.

«It can be depressing to see widespread poverty, a high level of unemployment, and lack of resources in schools, but they are rolling up their sleeves to figure out how to overcome,» Murphy says.

«Given the high level of unemployment in Spain, it's not surprising that someone has sussed out there's a way you can get a job as a teacher in England if you trained in Spain, since Spanish is a popular language», he told the TES.

Their policies, combined with an unfavorable international economy led to a major decline in the Jamaican economy with high levels of unemployment, inflation and debt, and a significant escalation of violence as supporters of the JLP and PNP engaged in bloody struggles.

Consumers have become much more aware of prices as they deal with higher levels of unemployment and news reports of a wobbly economy.

After the popping of the financial bubble in 2008, weakness in construction and gambling in Arizona and Nevada led to higher levels of unemployment.

Even in the presence of falling home prices, the accumulation of negative real estate equity and high levels of unemployment, consumers still have been placing a premium on paying off their credit card obligations and maintaining the health of their card relationships.»

«We believe that credit card performance will noticeably deteriorate during the year,» Fitch Ratings said in a report this week, «given spillover from residential mortgages, weaker economic trends and higher levels of unemployment.»

It turns out that a bad economy and high levels of unemployment are the kinds of things that swamp out almost any other concern for people.