Sentences with phrase «lost jobs and economic growth»

In many cases, these projects would create thousands upon thousands of jobs for Canadians... Unfortunately, there are environmental and other radical groups that would seek to block this... Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to Canadian families in lost jobs and economic growth.

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«We must tackle the underlying causes of deteriorating liquidity and the financing in venture markets soon,» says Russell, «or run the risk of losing the best source of capital to grow small - and medium - sized Canadian businesses into globally competitive enterprises that drive job creation, innovation and economic growth.»

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 economicEconomic 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 economiceconomic future.

The lack of natural gas supply capacity has been repeatedly cited as an obstacle to economic growth in the Southern Tier — which has lost a net 12,800 jobs in the past 15 years, with big, ongoing losses in the Binghamton and Elmira metro areas outweighing gains in Ithaca.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

What makes this process complicated is that you have small island nations who are about to disappear because of sea level rise, you have oil producers who are legitimately concerned about the future of their economy, you have major industrialized nations who are afraid they will lose jobs, and you have major developing countries whose overriding concern is economic growth and poverty eradication.

Yet while we have suffered an economic crisis produced by our own financial sector — losing millions of jobs, trillions in economic output, and further damaging our industrial base — China has largely shrugged off the global recession with high levels of growth and self - financed stimulus, all while purchasing billions of Treasury bills to finance our own deficit.

The story was full of «shocking predictions»: «Economic growth shattered», «Thousand of jobs lost», and «a devastating blow to the economy, slashing thousands of jobs».

«While the continued expansion is encouraging, faster growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the recent downturn and to reduce long - term unemployment,» Alan Krueger, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in his blog after the GDP numbers were released.

With the pace of job growth expected to pick up modestly going forward, household formations among these two specific cohorts should recover, including those households that were lost as deteriorating financial circumstances and / or some negative economic event (e.g. home foreclosure) forced people into combined living arrangements.