Sentences with phrase «labor force works»

A solid third of the state's labor force works in agriculture.

A solid third of the state's labor force works in agriculture.

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Interviewing noted legal thinkers like Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), the documentary argues that this «loophole» — allowing forced labor for criminals — enabled resentful white society to imprison black citizens on minor charges and put them to work.

More than 110,000 of VW's worldwide labor force of 589,000 work at its immense headquarters in Wolfsburg and four other plants in Lower Saxony.

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

Highly motivated workers are those who will find work and tighten the labor force more quickly.

«We offer new analyses in this working paper of the impact of changes in the US labor force participation rate (LFPR).

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

The labor force participation rate, or the share of working - age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 percent.

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 that are either working or looking for work.

Lee keeps the country's labor force cheap and disciplined by setting strict guidelines for both wage increases and working conditions.

In spite of its comparatively high cost of living and labor expenses, Washington, D.C., counts a young, highly educated work force.

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

Gig work, whether in preference to corporate jobs or because full time work is lacking, is absorbing an ever - growing portion of the labor force.

To fully realize the economic benefits of having more women in the labor force, Japan needs to provide incentives for women to seek out more full - time work in high growth areas, he said.

If you count only those whose primary way to earn a living comes from a so - called alternative work arrangement, you get to about 15 % of the American labor force.

Under these circumstances productivity is increased only by working the existing labor force more intensively and cutting back medical insurance, old - age pensions and other social welfare expenditures.

For this reason, economists prefer to rely on the participation rate of the labor force, measuring the percentage of the population that's either working or actively looking for a job.

And the Council of Economic Advisers announced that policies such as work flexibility «lead to higher labor force participation, greater labor productivity and work engagement, and better allocation of talent across the economy.»

According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific reLabor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific relabor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific region.

The labor force participation rate (the number of people employed and unemployment as a percentage of the population) and the employment rate (the ratio of persons 15 and older working to the population 15 and older) are both below their 2001 and 2008 levels.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

«We have a hard - working Hispanic labor force here in Denver that really is the foundation for the construction industry.»

Another way to assess labor market tightness is to look at labor flows — in other words, how workers move between being employed, unemployed (not working, but looking for work), and out of the labor force (neither employed, nor looking for work).4 Figure 11 shows the flow from being employed to unemployed.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

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Few people say «I want to grow up and work in an office,» yet 15 percent of Americans have office / administrative jobs (the largest of 22 segments of the U.S. labor force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistlabor force, according to the Bureau of Labor StatistLabor Statistics).

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

The beverage giant is working with the U.S. State Department to develop a blockchain ledger designed to help eliminate forced labor across the globe.

The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statislabor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

Underemployment Rate — A measure of employment and labor utilization in the economy that looks at how well the labor force is being utilized in terms of skills, experience and availability to work.

However, these days more and more people are switching to retirement jobs or working part time before they quit the labor force entirely.

Data going back to 1994 show a steady uptrend in the percentage of young (16 to 24 - year - old) and prime - age (25 to 54) Americans not in the labor force, with parallel rises in the number not wanting to work.

How is it that we have 23 million Americans between 25 and 54, in their prime working age, that are out of the labor force?..

There is now a position open for every unemployed person in the country, and the share of the labor force — Americans who are working or job hunting — has crept up this year, too.

As the industry digests the 1023 - page final Department of Labor's (DOL) rule, let's take a trip back in time to examine what forces may have been at work behind the rule.

What it tells us is the percentage of the population in the total US labor force — those actually working and those looking for work.

She sat down with MightyRecruiter to discuss the changes she's witnessed in the flex work scene, how the gig economy has changed work expectations, and how she would convince an employer to dip a toe into the flexible labor force.

Domestic workers face a wide range of serious abuses and labor exploitation, including excessive working hours without rest, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking.

The new arrangements have forced smart work on both management and labor.

The reasons are often that the factory is unionized and the workers are well paid, whereas in South Carolina a more docile labor force is willing to work for lower wages.

U.S. Cong., Senate, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, Work in America, report of a special task force to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 93rd Cong., lst sess.

Companies shouldn't be forced to comply to child labor laws, or have ethical work conditions.

They constitute one - half of the world population and one - third of the official labor force, perform nearly tw6 - thirds of the hours worked, and receive only one - tenth of the world income and own less than one - hundredth of the world property.

I didn't realized employees of said business were forced to work there... maybe that letter of forced labor camps from China actually originated from Hobby Lobby or Chik - fil - a?!

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

Second, it ignores the actual America, where the working class of all skin colors and ethnicities is facing a collapse of marriage, civic engagement, and male labor - force participation.

In our survey of the labor force, only 11 percent said they understand «very well» how our economic system works, and even among those who said they had thought a great deal about their responsibility to the poor only 18 percent said they understand it very well.

A mere 8 % of the labor force is in the formal economy while over 90 % work in the informal economy.