Sentences with phrase «jobs benefit american»

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The number of Americans working as contractors is rising, and many lack benefits, and job and financial security.

Handa quickly realized that American job - seekers expect employers to foot the cost of a health - benefits package that can add US$ 5,000 to $ 10,000 to an entry - level sales person's salary.

Means testing for Social Security benefits could have the greatest impact on those who work hardest and provide the most jobs of any sector of the American economy: entrepreneurs.

Trump's explanation of where the jobs went was simple enough to resonate with even the most low - information voters: They went to Mexico and China, shipped there by politicians who cut trade deals tailored to benefit multinational corporations, not American workers.

First, Trump's focus in dealing with the corporate world is preserving American jobs, while antitrust policy is more about the consumer than the worker (although some argue that workers benefit from aggressive antitrust enforcement because mergers seek corporate streamlining, leading to fewer jobs).

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Slightly more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but the overall levels still remain near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market.

A report today showed fewer Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign the job market continues to strengthen.

Republicans say that the business tax cuts will drive economic growth, adding jobs and pushing up wages, thus creating benefits for Americans at large.

«Just as the president promised, making our businesses more competitive internationally is translating directly into benefits for the American worker, through increased wages, better benefits, and new jobs,» Lindsay Walters, a deputy White House press secretary, said in a statement.

Woods, whose background is in downstream activities, wants to emphasize this aspect of the company's business in part for the political benefits: The Trump Administration's focus on expanding U.S. exports and building American infrastructure in order to produce new jobs clearly factored into Woods» address, which emphasized the «thousands and thousands» of new manufacturing and highly - skilled jobs the initiative would produce.

The two men take nearly opposite approaches to trade: According to Lighthizer, American jobs and businesses must be protected from what he views as unfair global competition, while Froman has expressed that negotiating free trade deals helps America to set the standards for international trade policies that benefit American economic growth.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, but the number of remained close to historic lows in a positive sign for the job market.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

At the outset, it should be emphasized that Horatio Alger was but one of many American writers who depicted in graphic and glowing terms the benefits of hard work at a good job and the ultimate rewards of achievement through wealth.

What I am saying is that while millions of Americans were working hard to get more money and a job with benefits millions more made the decision not to do what was required to get that job.

«In addition to the well - known health benefits of a diet rich in seafood, domestic aquaculture benefits us in many other ways, providing jobs for hardworking Americans in an industry capable of expanding exponentially,» he adds.

Economic Benefit: The aluminum and steel can industry is an American industry, providing jobs that fuel state and federal economies.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

It means the following: far more government ministers meeting their American counterparts to talk about shared interests; more visible cooperation between the British and American military; talking about the benefits to British security from our close ties with US intelligence agencies; highlighting the creation of British jobs from the investment US businesses put into Britain's regions; and the promotion of pro-British American voices on a range of issues across the media.

But Republicans have insisted the bill, which adds nearly $ 1.5 trillion to the federal deficit, gives many if not most middle - class Americans a tax cut at the same level as the 21 percent corporate benefit, boosting investment, job creation, higher wages and offsetting tax revenues.

But because fringe benefits — not yet important on the American job scene — were unregulated, unions started seeking insurance and other benefits in lieu of pay hikes and some employers began offering them as hiring inducements.

Unfortunately, rules and regulations promulgated by the Obama Administration threaten American jobs and economic recovery, and cost billions while providing questionable benefits; yet these rules can not be properly evaluated because their underlying assumptions and projections are based on secret data and models hidden from the public.

Americans with health insurance generally get it where they work, and people doing the same job at the same organization usually get the same benefits.

«If needed, I'll be glad to explain the many benefits of biofuels to U.S. economic and national security, energy independence and American job growth.»

Although job opportunities for American researchers are just beginning to expand in India, those who have lived and worked there say that the career and personal benefits outweigh the many challenges.

We have an opportunity to foster a new industry that will save the planet, benefit American companies, and create American jobs.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

Perhaps the most honest and well - researched study done on teacher pay, including the time - on - the - job and benefits factors, was done in 2011 by Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Jason Richwine, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

The American dream was a steady job with a middle class salary, decent benefits, and the promise of a pension in retirement.

More than a quarter of American workers have public service jobs that benefit society, but many of these public servants have trouble seeing a personal return on their investment.

Insurance benefits provided by The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company for life, critical illness, total disability, hospitalization, and terminal illness caregiving benefits and First North American Insurance Company for the job loss benefit.

However, in a 1992 survey published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, low salaries and lack of health benefits was the major reason for job dissatisfaction among technicians.

Jennifer is also active in the Lakeland community serving as Chairperson for Florida Blood Services, McKeel Academy of Technology and George Jenkins High School Job Shadow and Volunteers Hours coordinator and an active participant with The American Heart Association benefits and events.

As one of the best levers for driving economic growth, international travel to the United States currently supports 1.8 million American jobs (directly and indirectly) and benefits virtually every sector of the US economy.

While GM and friends seek roughly $ 165 per American, there is no clear or specific plan for how that money will be used to benefit the public or save jobs.

We can watch as millions of new jobs with good pay and good benefits are created for American workers, and we can take pride as the technologies, and discoveries, and industries of the future flourish in the United States of America.

Washington, D.C. — A report released today by the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE) at a Capitol Hill press conference with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D - OR) shows that the Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act (APA) and the Senate Energy Committee's American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), while taking a significant stride in the right direction, could benefit from even stronger energy efficiency measures to create additional American jobs and consumer savings.

America's energy revolution means... a United States that's more energy self - sufficient — less dependent on others, more secure in the world and better positioned to help friends abroad; economic growth and job creation — and with the right policy choices, a golden opportunity to secure American prosperity well into the future; and a stronger U.S. trading posture that, with energy exports, could benefit consumers

The Paris climate accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers... and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production.

Murray Energy Corporation employs over 6,000 high paying, well benefited jobs to Americans nationwide.

The American Wind Energy Association estimates that the state's RPS is supporting at least 5,000 direct and indirect jobs and generating a billion dollars in annual wages along with millions in leasing revenue for landowners who benefit from the policy.

Biofuels can reduce emissions, benefit American corporations, and create jobs.

The mass majority of exports, jobs, tax revenues, and other economic benefits will accrue to foreign countries, and we will miss a historic opportunity to achieve a new era of American leadership.

«General James Jones... will discuss the benefits of the pipeline initiative, including more jobs, less dependence on foreign oil, and cheaper energy costs for Americans,» explained an April 15 Drake University press release promoting the event.

Proponents of the pipeline have engaged in a predatory relationship with Americans» insecurity about unemployment to present what appear to be grossly exaggerated estimates of the job - creating benefits of the pipeline.

A new video captures quite well the game of political football involving the Keystone XL pipeline, a game of overtime that's making Americans wait for jobs, economic benefits and greater energy security.

In other words, the American energy renaissance, and millions of jobs and numerous economic benefits it has made possible, would not have happened if not for technological advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have unlocked previously inaccessible resources in shale formations.

A relic of «70s - era energy scarcity, the ban was rendered obsolete by the American energy revolution, and studies show that maintaining it would have meant missing out on significant economic benefits — an estimated 300,000 American jobs and $ 5.8 billion per year in consumer savings by 2020 in gasoline, heating oil and diesel costs, according to ICF International.

And the benefits — more green jobs for the US, more incentives for American and Chinese solar companies to innovate and build more efficiently, cleaner life cycles for solar panels, less shipping, and more improved and economical solar energy for American homes — are clear as daylight.