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When it comes to issues facing the country, New York voters list jobs and the economy at the top, along with keeping America safe.

Burham insisted that a British exit would put jobs and the economy at risk, and said it was time to «nail our colours firmly to the mast».

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In a statement, Lee said that the «growing «sharing economy» is leveraging technology and innovation to generate new jobs and income for San Franciscans in every neighborhood and at every income level... San Francisco must be at the forefront of nurturing its growth, modernizing our laws, and confronting emerging policy issues and concerns.»

Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

CNBC goes inside a global crime spree putting our economy and jobs at peril... and lives at risk.

Small business and entrepreneurship are at the center of creating jobs and growing the economy, which are key pieces of Trump's stated focus.

The solar and wind industries are each creating jobs at a rate 12 times faster than that of the rest of the U.S. economy, according to a new report.

As Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a statement, the reefs provide at $ 6.4 billion a year and 64,000 jobs to the Australian economy — numbers that may underestimate the reefs» value.

Finally, the economy is on a hot streak: employers have been adding jobs steadily for a year, and growth is running at an annualized rate in excess of 3 %.

Yet much of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid end of the marketplace, where physicians, lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.

«Amazon's monopolistic desire to control the retail market and replace good jobs with automation is not only a direct threat to the hard - working men and women at Whole Foods, it's also a direct threat to our economy and consumers.»

After almost nine years of mostly sluggish expansion, the U.S. economy has shifted into a higher gear and is creating jobs at a record pace.

This vacation deficit is not that surprising, «when you consider that consumer confidence still hovers at relatively low levels coupled with uncertainty about the economy and specifically consumers» own job security,» said Laura Mandala, managing director of Mandala Research, a tourism and travel company.

Of the 6500 available jobs at the time, only 268 Americans applied and just seven of the 245 people who had been offered jobs completed the growing season, according to a report by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan pro-immigration reform group, and the Center for Global Development.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge sAnd the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge sand produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

If you've been skeptical of all the crowdfunding buzz, consider this: By the end of 2014, crowdfunding is estimated to add at least 270,000 jobs and inject more than $ 65 billion into the global economy, according to estimates from crowdfunding platform Fundable.

Though much of the economy is doing very well, with 2014 being the best year for U.S. job gains since 1999, and stock markets at record highs, most small businesses and employees are not feeling it.

Your company is growing and the economy is changing, while people's social positions and job security change at an amazing rate.

But the turnover at these companies can be quite high; an estimated one in six participants is new, and more than half of gig economy works leave their jobs within a year, according to a November 2016 report from JPMorgan Chase & Co..

A recent study put out by PwC estimated that as many as 30 % of UK jobs could be «susceptible to automation by robots and AI» by the early 2030s — with 38 % in the US at risk, 35 % in Germany, and 21 % in Japan — although it believes jobs will be created elsewhere in the economy to help offset this.

If we look instead at the employment - to - population ratio — a better measure of the economy's job - creation performance — Canada's recovery is actually slightly weaker than those of the U.S. and Britain.

Every major economy on earth is expanding at once, and the growth is creating jobs while tempering fears of popular discontent.

«If you just look at North Carolina and Indiana and put that over a Texas - sized footprint of our economy, it could be up to $ 8.5 bn and 185,000 jobs lost, it is very dramatic,» said Chris Wallace, the association's president.

«I think in the country, people said at where we are right now, we need to have some of these things in place, but now with a dynamic and robust economy and what we see happening right now with the tax cuts and job bill, it makes a lot of things more possible,» Kelly said.

She made clear at the committee's hearing last week that she's prepared to support the Fed's extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy until there are clear signs of a sustained rebound and further improvement in the job market.

Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.

Solar and wind - industry jobs are growing at a rate of about 20 percent per year — 12 times faster than the general economy.

Through its media awareness campaign highlighting the theme, Franchising: Building Local Businesses, One Opportunity at a Time, IFA promotes the economic impact of the more than 825,000 franchise establishments, which support nearly 18 million jobs and $ 2.1 trillion of economic output for the U.S. economy.

Moreover, «For every net job lost in this definition, the gains to the U.S. economy were about $ 450,000, owing to enhanced productivity of the workforce, a broader range of goods and services, and lower prices at the checkout counter for households.»

«While we are pleased the industry continues growing at faster rates than other sectors of the economy, we could be growing much faster, creating more new jobs and businesses, if Washington addressed the tax, spending and regulatory uncertainty plaguing the small business community in a meaningful way,» said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira.

And although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy and are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs nationwiAnd although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy and are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs nationwiand are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs nationwide.

Take a good look at prices, GDP, wages, jobs, and other key data below on the US Economy for the next 6 years and you may see a surprisingly positive picture, far from the dread of the recent stock market corrections.

An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4 % per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy.

Today's economy might be far weaker than it is — with real GDP in the second quarter of 2015 about $ 800 billion lower than its actual level, 3.6 million fewer jobs, and unemployment at a still - dizzying 7.6 %.

John Doerr lecture at UC Berkeley in a Q&A session where he discussed topics such as startups, healthcare, education, policy & politics, venture capital, the sharing economy, and jobs in emerging markets.

First, the oilsands and clean energy job numbers in our report only address «direct employment» — i.e. neither figure includes construction jobs, nor do they include the «induced» jobs in other parts of the economy (like baristas and realtors and staff at the Mac store).

The economy has performed well, the job market has been strong with very low unemployment numbers and the province has consistently had surplus money left over at the end of each year.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Friday that the U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in June, leaving the jobless rate unchanged at 8.2 %, disappointing analysts and driving the stock market downward even though the data showed that all of the new jobs came from the private sector.

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, previews the U.S. April jobs report and discusses his outlook for the U.S. economy.

It's contribution to the national economy in this regard is unmatched, and its efficiency at providing those services is largely unrewarded — high - volumes with very low labour costs i.e. few BC jobs and wages.

Orange County's future prosperity hinges on the region's ability to create a healthy, prosperous economy that promotes both jobs and housing, not one at the expense of the other.

Now that the region's economy is recovering and creating jobs, the Workforce Housing Scorecard is again released at a turning point for the housing market — but this time in a positive direction, as home prices, construction and demand are on the rise.

«The cost to the economy at this time would be close to $ 3 trillion in lowered GDP and 6.5 million industrial jobs, while households would have $ 7,000 less income and in many cases, much worse than that.»

I would hope that that would free me up enough sanity and / or time to do something worthwhile instead of mindlessly punching a clock every week with the fear of an unexpected change outside my control (economy, medical emergency, human error at my job...) leaving me to live out of my car.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

According to the Bank of Canada this is about 3,500 fewer jobs a month than would be expected at this stage of the recovery, and the economy is currently 270,000 jobs short of full employment.

Neutral real interest rates may well rise over the next few years as the American economy creates jobs at a rapid rate and the effects of the financial crisis diminish.

As an extremely recent college graduate at a terrible time for job hunting and the economy, this book seemed like a necessity.