Sentences with phrase «jobs initiative for»

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He is one of the executives President Donald Trump has named to assist in a manufacturing jobs initiative that aims for best practices to bring jobs back to the U.S.

Trudeau backs the Keystone pipeline as «an extremely important initiative... in terms of getting our raw resources to market,» which, in turn, could mean good jobs for a greater number of people.

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

Half of the board of Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has walked off the job, including chairman John Cooper, after it flagged a change in direction, a number of redundancies and cost - saving initiatives in response to the tough climate for local contractors.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

Yes, it is the Millennial's job to take the initiative for professional development, but if you're standing back waiting for Millennials to take matters into their own hands, you may miss out on a unique opportunity.

Recruiters need to take the initiative to do some investigative work and map out the military job codes that fit the roles the company is hiring for.

The job also puts Gore in charge of Dell's global policy initiatives, empowers her to advocate for pro-entrepreneur regulations and has enabled her to reconnect with former colleagues at the U.N. «I've lived and worked in the humanitarian world for my entire career,» she says.

The women — Susan Wu, Laura I. Gómez, Erica Baker, Ellen Pao, Tracy Chou, Y - Vonne Hutchinson, bethanye McKinney Blount, Freada Kapor Klein — have all pushed for greater diversity within the tech industry long before the new initiative, on which they'll work on outside of their day jobs.

Apple is already responsible for creating and supporting over 2 million jobs across the United States and expects to generate even more jobs as a result of the initiatives being announced today.

Although the site is meant to be most useful to job seekers looking to beef up their skill sets, the facts that Bloomberg has signed on to Codecademy and the White House has partnered with the site for a learning initiative are signals Bubinski's line of thinking is becoming mainstream.

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an award - winning, innovative career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance and part - time job listings, and founder of Remote.co, a one - stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative.

Known inside the company as Future Ready, the initiative is a $ 1 billion web - based, multiyear effort that includes online courses; collaborations with Coursera, Udacity and leading universities; and a career center that allows employees to identify and train for the kinds of jobs the company needs today and down the road.

The powerful royal, who also heads the country's economic council, hopes the so - called «Vision 2030» initiative will jumpstart the private sector, provide jobs for a growing population and improve Saudis» cloistered lifestyles.

Porschia Davis, program manager for Evanston's summer youth employment initiative, which finds jobs for 14 - to 18 - year - olds, said she is seeing more retail jobs for teens.

On January 12, the president - elect announced that Powell would get a White House job as senior counselor for economic initiatives, saying she would focus on «entrepreneurship, small business growth, and the global economic empowerment of women.»

Notwithstanding its potential environmental burdens, the JRP ultimately concluded that the NGP is in the public interest, citing various societal benefits including primarily jobs and job - training for Aboriginal communities but also «research, monitoring, and planning initiatives and techniques with relevance beyond the project» and economic benefits, first and foremost the importance of «opening Pacific Basin markets» (NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 2, s. 2.4.3 and 2.4.4.).

Adrian Dix and the New Democrats have an environmental plan that would reinvest in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

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.

This initiative, which will start next year and continue through 2020, will double container capacity, position the port for future growth, create thousands of jobs, improve efficiency, and increase tax revenues.

The B.C. New Democrats have proposed an environmental plan that would reinvest carbon tax revenue in transit and climate change initiatives, create green jobs, and offer legislated protection for species at risk.

Here for America is an initiative of the Association of Global Automakers to increase public education about the importance of international automakers to American job creation, economic growth, technological innovation and strong communities.

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) was founded in 2005 by operatives from the John Kerry campaign who were then shuttling between work at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Democratic party jobs.

This job title is something for which she has certainly earned her stripes, having spent years living in the toughest of neighbourhoods in Canada and Australia in order to carry out church planting and social action initiatives.

Of course, the widespread social benefits of vigorous competition make it appropriate for a society to use public - and private - sector initiatives to cushion the most vulnerable people from the worst effects of job loss.

McCain Foods Americas president Frank van Schaayk said that the company will contribute $ 2m and collaborate with the provincial government in the development of initiatives that create sustainable jobs for its affected workers.

The Australian Meat Industry Council and the Meat Industry Employees» Union have accused the government of subsiding foreign workers who compete directly with Australian meatworkers for jobs with its five - year commitment to an initiative, Managing Abattoir, Training and Exchange of Skills, or MATES.

Frustrated by the limited number of people he could help in his job at a nonprofit organization providing services for at - risk youth, Geoffrey Canada in 1999 founded a large - scale initiative eventually dubbed the Harlem Children's Zone.

A staff «white paper «prepared for Thursday «s regular Fair Authority board meeting will suggest a series of economic development initiatives linking the fair to Gov. James Thompson «s Build Illinois program and to the Commercial Club of Chicago «s recent report on creating jobs in metropolitan Chicago.

«During his 25 - year tenure in the Senate, he has been a tireless advocate for initiatives aimed at spurring job growth and economic opportunity in every corner of New York, but particularly upstate which has been his lifelong home.

Chairman of the Aliu Mahama 5th Anniversary Planning Committee, Gabby Asare Okyere - Darko believes such initiative will reduce north - south migration for non-existing jobs.

Another initiative focuses on job opportunities with local companies for veterans.

Mr. Speaker, in our maiden Budget Statement and Economic Policy, we outlined a number of short to medium term policy initiatives, to set the stage for our agenda for inclusive growth and job creation.

Cuomo announced $ 5.5 million in new state funding for after - school and job training initiatives aimed at preventing the MS - 13 gang from recruiting on Long Island.

It specifies that the money will flow through Empire State Development — which has effectively taken over SUNY Poly's development portfolio — and be used for «ongoing projects and initiatives that create or retain jobs or support innovation.»

The Business Council supports continued funding for the state's Regional Economic Development Councils, funding for the state to host more tourism related summits and initiatives that create private sector investment and job creation.

Tesla, in return for $ 750 million in state subsidies through the state's Buffalo Billion economic development initiative to build the factory and buy much of the equipment that will go inside it, also has pledged to help bring 1,440 other jobs to the Buffalo Niagara region through suppliers, vendors and service providers for the factory.

The redistricting of 2012 opened the door for New York Congressman Steve Israel to step into the political consciousness of northeast Queens, but despite conventional wisdom his national job as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wasn't enough to raise his name recognition, it was a strong grassroots campaign initiative which helped ensure victory on Election Day.

Empire State Development President, CEO & Commissioner Howard Zemsky said, «The industrial hemp initiative highlights one of the many ways New York State benefits from being home to world - class educational institutions as new academia - industry partnerships utilize the innovations from research and development, generating economic opportunities and more jobs for New Yorkers.»

The spending, which includes ads for the «I Love NY» campaign, has drawn criticism from Cuomo foes, particularly the money spent to promote his Start - Up NY initiative, which creates tax - free zones for companies that move to New York or expand jobs.

Launched YouWIN scheme for young entrepreneurs and Sure - P initiative aimed at helping graduates find jobs.

«I am very happy to state that through this Safety Corps initiative the State Government has created over 7,000 jobs for officers of the Corps, artisans and other support staff.

She indicated that lack of jobs for the youth, teenage pregnancy and adolescent marriages are some of the major concerns of the region therefore pleaded with government to ensure the Central region is fully considered in the implementation of these initiatives to facilitate job creation as well as provide soft loans to enable women especially build businesses and their capacity.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

On July 20, 2011, as part of a historic initiative to transform New York State's model for economic development and job creation, Governor Cuomo announced that up to $ 1 billion in economic development funding would be made available through a Consolidated Application Process (CFA).

He says there are plenty of projects that they're not looking to invest in, for example, the team is not looking for retail, health care, general education or infrastructure, or real estate initiatives, except in innovative proposals that produce jobs.

Governor Cuomo launched the NYS Community Schools initiative in 2013, a statewide program that is transforming schools in distressed communities into hubs for a wide range of support services for children and their families, including health care, counseling, nutrition, and job preparation services.

It is also offering support for new private sector jobs, an investment plan for capital projects and other initiatives to drive investment, particularly in infrastructure.

«The Nation supported the initiative because we have experienced firsthand how responsible gaming can provide vital financial support for communities, creating good - paying jobs and providing opportunities for young adults to move back home for career advancement.»