Sentences with phrase «labored under the force»

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Phillip Chen is descended from generations of sojourners and immigrants who labored under the force of anti-Chinese and Chinese Exclusion Act culture in the United States — the son of a «paper son» and «war bride» challenged by processes of legalization and marginalization.

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Often the biggest caveat for the jobs recovery under Obama is the labor force participation rate.

Labor force participation has been declining for men under age 62 since the 1970s, even as more women joined the workforce.

In 2011, the same year that it became a B Corp, the company audited its tier - two fabric suppliers in Taiwan and found that migrant workers in some factories were being held under forced - labor conditions.

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.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

How will conversations go when advisors are forced to sign contracts with longtime clients under the Department of Labor fiduciary rule?

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.

Food and beverage companies are under pressure to address the risk of forced labor in countries where they obtain sugarcane.

Lawyers representing the National Association for Fixed Annuities told a U.S. District judge Thursday that individual insurance agents would be forced to become registered investment advisors under the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule and that the current distribution system for fixed indexed annuities would have to be reworked.

1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW = > In God we trust is on our legal currency 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW = > intellectual property is a God to many, we have tones of laws protecting against false copies 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW = > false testimony is a crime as is swearing in some states 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

NOT A LAW) 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW = > employment law in many states prohibits forced labor on religious days (NOT A LAW that you have to observe the Sabbath) 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW = > minors have limited right to transact commerce under 19.

I've sat across the room from a group of fisherman who shared their stories of being drugged, forced to labor 20 hours a day for years on fishing boats, under horrific conditions.

During the exile he found time to write, encouraging others suffering under the edict, by being made to undergo forced labor in the mines.

Man, under communism and socialism, forces man to give the fruit of their labor for the alleged purposes of feeding, housing and clothing the needy (but look how that is so out of control and so much abused).

They were largely meaningless to most women and to those men who were forced to labor long hours under inhumane conditions.

In 2000, 52.3 % of children under age 6 had all parents living at home in the labor force, up from 49.8 % in 1990.

The controversial WFP, which is under investigation for possible violations of the New York City campaign - finance law, was founded nearly a decade ago by left - wing labor unions and political activists, and has emerged as a potent force in helping Democratic candidates.

The next mayor is facing a daunting multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned yesterday.

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pay.

The next mayor of NYC is facing a multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned.

The situation that Spain is experiencing in terms of unemployment is problematic: together with Greece, it has the highest level of unemployment among European countries (23.7 % according to the latest EPA (Encuesta de Población Activa — Labor Force Survey); one out of two young adults under the age of 25 can not find work (52.4 %); and nearly half of the unemployed receive no benefits whatsoever.

The workers are then forced to work until they pay off their new bosses for sharply reduced wages and under conditions that make it hard for them to speak out against abuses, labor activists and workers in Fukushima said.

In examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencies.

As has been extensively discussed, the economic liberalization policies following the 1980 coup caused the organized labor force to work under unorganized, insecure and flexible conditions.

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

«Subject to its obligations under pre-existing labor agreements... School Districts shall use reasonable efforts not to terminate any employed Teacher from his / her teaching position in the event of a reduction in force (RIF), layoffs, «leveling» or other elimination or consolidation of teaching positions within School District.

Her mother survived Auschwitz and her father, a prisoner of forced labor, was rescued by a Hungarian army officer and Seventh Day Adventist who saved more than 100 Jewish men under his command.

At one point he and his grandfather only escape death because of a very fortunate coincidence, but shortly after that incident he and his father are taken prisoner and forced into slave labor under terrible circumstances.

It costs these companies thousands of dollars or much more to publish a book with a large labor force under massive bureaucracies.

So authors are becoming just another third - world labor force, like the rest of the low - paid, under - employed American workers in a country that has devalued craftsmanship in as many industries as possible, all so that the jobs pay less, the top echelons get richer, the consumers get cheap, mediocre goods, and the workers get shafted.

However, what these images do not reveal are the great economic and human costs of these state - sponsored initiatives, particularly as violent pogroms, forced labor camps, deliberate famines, and food shortages became commonplace under Stalin's rule by the 1930s.

Once a flourishing industrial center for textile manufacturing (dubbed «Cottonopolis» at the turn of the 19th century), Manchester suffered under the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s and throughout the»80s, resulting in a significant reduction of its labor force and dramatic shift in the social landscape and identity of the city.

Holland was under German occupation and Appel faced the real possibility of being picked up by the German police in order to be sent to Germany to do forced labor.

The European Banks consider the labor force used in relation to maritime loans under $ 20 million as unproductive.

In fact, in the U.S., the majority (63 %) of women with children under 3 spends time in the labor force and their children experience considerable amounts of non-maternal care.

In general, mothers with older children (6 to 17 years of age) are more likely to participate in the labor force than mothers with younger children (under 6 years of age).