Sentences with phrase «jobs numbers pointed»

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Healthcare and education are just two examples — but they illustrate a point: if the current system prevents a growing number of people from being able to care for themselves when they are sick, or get the training they need to get a job that supports themselves and their families, they will break the system.

The latest jobs numbers prove a point: Putting government policy over business interests has been a disastrous failure for the American worker.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

After a disappointing jobs number on Friday, the spread between the U.S. 2 - year yield and U.S. 10 - year yield fell to around 72.7 basis points, marking a 10 - year low.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

Critics of the agreement point to the falling numbers of US manufacturing jobs, particularly in the auto sector, while Mexican employment in that sector has more than quadrupled.

Pointing to such factors as a low minimum wage, the declining number of well - paying manufacturing jobs, and the continuing segregation of jobs by race and sex, they argue that the central issue is the availability and quality of work.

You mentioned at one point that you lost your «job» because of changes in your viewpoint — I would be interested in hearing more of that, as both myself and a number of my close acquaintances suffered something similar in our ministries over changes in our eschatological perspectives.

On Oman Fm's Boiling Point on Thursday, he alleged that a number of appointees at the seat of government are making filthy money indicating that some persons are demanding bribes in return for jobs.

DeFrancisco, a Republican candidate for governor, pointed to a push by GOP lawmakers, including Majority Leader John Flanagan, to end the START - UP New York program, which was created by Cuomo and has been criticized for its spending on advertising, but producing a lower number of jobs than initially projected.

The number of people working part - time who would prefer a full - time job is now at a high of 18 %, the Office for National Statistics pointed out.

That tells us that we must refine and smarten the points - based system that was left to us by the previous Government so that it does the job of ensuring that we get immigration numbers down to sustainable levels.

According to the Siena College poll, Cuomo's job performance numbers dropped to just 43 percent, and his overall favorability rating, at 52 percent, is down nine points from just two months ago.

Cuomo's office in a joint statement with Senate leaders, including Republican Dean Skelos, touted the recent upstate jobs numbers that showed a 2 percentage - point drop in joblessness in upstate counties between December 2012 and December 2013.

Readers of the NY Post, which chronicled Barkley's hardships in a series of articles last month, helped land the retired boxer a home in Hunts Point and a number of prospective jobs.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «underwater» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

The head of the state's Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo's perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor's job performance numbers have been «under water» for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high - tech economic projects means that «dissatisfaction will grow.»

Olsen offers a number of communication strategies, but Luna pointed out that «the book could have done a better job of describing which tools would work best for which audiences.»

Harlow rightfully points out that water is the number one enemy of make - up, so they must have done an epic job in keeping the scars on — especially with all that fighting and body friction.

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Again controlling for age, race, and their state of residence, Stevenson calculated that for every 10 - percentage - point rise in the number of girls playing high - school sports in any state there was a 1 - percentage - point increase in those going to college and a 1 - to 2 - point rise in those with jobs.

UTLA has been especially critical among the district's labor partners, pointing to the number of jobs and programs that could be lost with every new independent charter within the district.

Thus, the highest number of points — 138 of the 500 - point scale that Duncan and his staff created for the Race — would be awarded based on a commitment to eliminate what teachers» union leaders consider the most important protections enjoyed by their members: seniority - based compensation and permanent job security.

During the election process, the need to increase the number of traditional, full - time jobs was a focal point of both the Democratic and Republican platforms.

I just gathered up my courage and quit my day job to go writing full - time this year, and I hope to hit that high data point in 2014 I know quite a few other indie authors who are doing much better, so I'm only surprised at how low these numbers are (granted, they're conservative assumptions, but still).

I used a very good publishing company to publish my book and fortunately the person I worked with did a good job of explaining a number of the points you mentioned with me.

The metro area increased its total job numbers by 1.3 percent, and its unemployment rate dropped by 1.1 percentage points, demonstrating strong growth, although that still leaves San Jose with an unimpressive 8.2 percent of its workforce unemployed.

The latest numbers point to an «official» unemployment rate of 9.2 percent and paltry jobs growth — just 18,000 new jobs in June.

A neat starting point may be to look at the turnover rate of the company's personel, job satisfaction surveys as well as the number of applications for positions.

You may even lose your job at some point; experience a disability; retire early, transfer a commuted value lump - sum payment from your pension into a locked - in RRSP; or decide to defer your pension start date at retirement — all things that could create a year or number of years where your income is significantly lower and strategic RRSP withdrawals could be made at a lower tax rate than today.

Ingrid also cares for the human; she made me feel a lot less embarrassed and inadequate by sharing her own story, and pointing to the reality that no matter how great a job I do, the cats will be cats and at these numbers part of being cats will likely include urine marking.

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

I'm sure a decent number of game fans could identify the music as being of the Castlevania series, but my point is that those who don't know the score would have no way to ascertain even what kind of game it is scoring because cheesy beats and cutesy 80s - sounding rock tunes have no connection to the subject matter — unlike Zelda, Metroid, etc. which both do a far better job enhancing the action on the screen.

«At some point we could sit down and spend a good number of hours talking about where VR needs to get to in order to work with [Battlefront 2], because in something like this you're doing the job of a fighter pilot,» he explained in an interview with Metro.

You can change your job from the hub town or ad - hoc base, which opens up a new set of abilities / feats that you can choose from (both characters have character specific spells / feats, but they have a hefty number of job specific traits you can spend points on, too).

Not much for me to add to the follow - up by other posters other than a) to point out the obvious that RC and quite a number of other sites already do a stellar job of presenting broad, interactive straight talk on climate and b) offer a little conjecture on my part.

> If I had a big policy job, in my capacity as an office holder, I would be guided by the reports of institutions such as IPCC rather than any personal views (a point I've made on a number of occasions); and that I believed that policy decisions could be made without requiring «statistical significance» (such decisions are made in business all the time, and, in all my years in business, I never heard the words «statistical significance» pass anyone's lips as a preamble to a business decision.

But part of the point of looking into Hall's numbers is that he is known for doing a very through job of it.

He pointed out that a bike share's success should be defined by more than the number of people riding — it should be defined by how inclusive and accessible it is, and how effectively it is connecting all residents to the transit hubs, jobs and schools that lead to new opportunities.

The main point is that while a slow job market has meant rising demand for education in the past, today's law school enrollment has fallen off along with the rise in unemployment numbers.

The exact jobs number, however, is contingent on issues such as passporting and freedom of movement, both of which remain sticking points for the business community.

If you plan on applying for jobs that involve driving, switching insurance companies, or want to confirm the number of points on your license your driving record may be needed.

That be a big help if you are looking to receive a reduction in your auto insurance rates, want to get a job that involves driving, or you are close to the maximum number of points you are allowed to have before your license is suspended.

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He pointed at lengthy online application processes as his number one dislike about job searching.

The resume writer made a point to detail the number of beds and level of trauma care in both of the jobs he worked as an ER nurse.

In the US, over the last decade, the number of freelance, contract, temporary or on - call jobs has risen 5 percentage points to account for 15 % of all workers.

According to Statistics Canada, this trend will reach a turning point in 2016 when the number of people leaving the job market will be greater than the number of -LSB-...]

Finally, add these stories in bullet - point form for each job, then finish by writing a basic job description that introduces each executive position — describing the number of employees you've supervised, budgets managed, business unit growth, and other contextual details.