Sentences with phrase «local jobs in»

And for residents, wind energy projects provide new work for local trades people and contractors, new customers for local businesses, and new skilled local jobs in operations and maintenance.

A bigger obstacle, Rive also said, may be the fact that people still don't know that rooftop solar «is real and is viable» and that «it puts local jobs in every community.

Together, this project will create hundreds of local jobs in the Commonwealth.

«I look forward to continuing my efforts to save our children's education from the mismanaged roll - out of the Common Core curriculum, advocate for women's equality and make smart investments to create good local jobs in Dutchess and Putnam counties.»

Brendan Barber: Runway 3: The TUC supports the government's environmental aims, but a third runway promises 150,000 local jobs in a faltering economy

Pursglove, who gave up his Easter to campaign on saving local jobs in the steel industry, gives a typically moderated answer, referencing the «honour» of working as an MP.

A recent independent economic survey found a further 4000 local jobs in the region rely on our plant, which also injects $ 250 million per year into the local economy.

Colusa County, for example, has the second - largest share of local jobs in industries affected by tariffs among California counties, at 14.1 %, and had an unemployment rate of 14.3 % in 2017, nearly three times the state average unemployment rate of 4.8 %.

The records shed new light on why WEDC, the state's job - creation and retention agency, didn't contact the multinational food conglomerate between the announcements of its merger in March and the planned closure of Oscar Mayer and reduction of 1,000 local jobs in November.

Not exact matches

While it's true that Uber has done a pitiful job of engaging the governments in charge of regulating local taxi regimes — by and large, that's been a key part of the company's strategy — it's time Uber learned to play nice with the cities it hopes to conquer.

Finally, in places where existing businesses lack a qualified labor pool, CGE builds training facilities to help the local population fill those in - demand jobs.

Half a billion dollars in incentives later, the local scene had grown to more than 6,000 highly skilled and paid jobs.

Two shopping centres in Perth's north have been included in a $ 28 million solar power project being undertaken by ASX - listed Vicinity Centres, which is forecasting the creation of about 40 local jobs.

The short answer must lie, in part, in the growth of local companies — particularly startups — to create economic growth and jobs at all skill - levels.

Check with your local school board to see if high schools in your area have job training and placement programs.

After graduating from college, he received a job at a local warehouse, where he quickly moved up in rank from midlevel management to vice president.

Bennett said small fish processors will be squeezed out of business with more local job losses to follow in outport communities.

After full days of working on design projects as diverse as flatware, stores, and exhibits for the local zoo, Anderson would meet Sand at the job shop Sand ran in a small warehouse in San Francisco.

One of my first jobs was bussing tables at a local restaurant in the Lake of the Ozarks.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

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.

Amazon said it will invest $ 5 billion and create 50,000 new jobs in the locale it ends up choosing — and local governments are pulling out the stops in response.

So, I had a brilliant idea to get certified to be a nail tech,» she said in a blog post for Global Grind, adding «Don't be surprised if you hear about a part time job I've picked up at a local nail salon.»

Celis became involved with the work of Engineers without Borders Canada, a group of engineers, students and volunteers who use their creativity and problem - solving skills to help communities in Africa, and soon left her job at OPG for a year - long position in Ghana, working with the development systems of local governments.

Discount - of - the - day site LivingSocial is closing its Fifth Avenue office in New York City and eliminating its local events division, leaving 30 full - time staffers without jobs.

Tourism supports more than 400,000 jobs, or nearly half of the region's total workforce, paying $ 16.9 billion in local wages, Applied Analysis has found.

«But I can't imagine more than two - thirds of voters in San Francisco thinking that our city government should be introducing measures that will cost local jobs and spitefully target one industry.»

So far in 2017, Baltimore's unemployment rate has hovered around the national average, but the local economy likely will take a hit in the future if job growth begins to lag.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

The trio was motivated not only by a desire to start their own business, but to create jobs for other locals who had skills and ambition — people like Nicholls, who joined in 2007 when the Cookes acquired a previous employer.

Over the same period, German carmakers increased local staff levels in the U.S. market by nearly a fifth to 36,500 jobs.

Backers are encouraged to invest in ventures that won't just turn quick profits but will benefit their communities over the long term by creating jobs, supporting other local businesses and the fostering local food chain.

When job - creators are successful, their employees are successful, local communities become successful, and ultimately, our state shares in that success.

Wall Street accounted for less than 5 percent of local jobs but 20 percent of private sector wages in the city, the report said.

It's a tough job, to be sure, but being a probation or parole officer also involves lots of interpersonal work and being active in your local community.

Today, it provides jobs to 262,000 workers throughout the city and contributes nearly $ 30 billion annually in wages to the local economy.

According to data compiled by business management software firm Sage, if just 10 percent of annual spending in San Francisco was redirected from chains to local businesses, it would generate $ 192 million in local economic activity and create almost 1,300 new jobs.

«We know that one in four people in the U.S. have searched for or found a job using Facebook, so we're focused on helping those who want to work for the local businesses they love,» Facebook's Himel tells Inc..

«In today's low - price energy environment, providing the offshore industry access to the maximum amount of opportunities possible is part of our strategy to spur local and regional economic dynamism and job creation and a pillar of President Trump's plan to make the United States energy dominant,» Zinke said of the planned sale.

As the size and breadth of the company has expanded, G Adventures has slowly evolved into a multinational with 36 socially responsible programs in various communities that aim to provide education and business opportunities to locals by creating tourism jobs for them.

His former co-workers have gone on to work in warehouses or a local General Motors plant, and most are choosing not to return to their old jobs even as contractors offer higher wages.

As evidence of the economic impact RFRA laws can have on local economies, ratings and reviews site Angie's List, founded by Bill Osterle and Angie Hicks in 1995, announced over the weekend that it was halting a $ 40 million expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters, expected to bring with it an additional 1,300 jobs, while it examines the implications of the law.

Depending on where you live, there's legislation pending that will levy more regulations and taxes on fracking, which in a time of rapidly falling oil prices could significantly hurt local energy companies that provide jobs and work for small businesses.

Amazon plans to invest $ 5 billion in the project, while creating as many as 50,000 local jobs.

In the fall of 2011, Skyline Group of Companies was preparing recruitment materials for a local job fair.

Hang fliers in your neighborhood, take care of friends» pets, or use sites like DogVacay to help you find local jobs.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

When I started my job as a newspaper editor, for instance, a local businessman invited me to tour the county while seated next to him in his private plane.

Lima, 37, had founded IT Cosmetics out of her tiny Studio City, Calif. apartment in 2008, after quitting her job as a local news anchor.

Both the private sector as well as federal, state and local governments have an important role to play in supporting high growth businesses and job creation.