Sentences with phrase «millions of jobs for»

Democratic leaders have enriched the unions over the past half century, creating millions of jobs for dues - paying teachers, feeding the building trades via school construction, and granting bargaining rights to teachers in the 1970s.

In press release on 2018 State of the Nation Address (SONA) which President Nana Akufo - Addo presented to Parliament on Thursday, the TUC asked: «why would the President not have statistics on employment, even though he was elected based, mainly, on his party's promise to create millions of jobs for Ghanaians?»

His campaign's newest offensive contains the claim that the Senate majority leader created «millions of jobs for China people.»

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The facts: Trump offered no further details or evidence for his claim that «millions of jobs» were created, and nothing happened during his trip that could come close to backing up such an assertion.

They are, of course, some of the biggest job creators, accounting for 2 million jobs in 2013 alone, according to the report.

For the crowd that attends the annual tech - centric festival, that reality involves robots — and the potential for automation to render millions of American jobs unnecessaFor the crowd that attends the annual tech - centric festival, that reality involves robots — and the potential for automation to render millions of American jobs unnecessafor automation to render millions of American jobs unnecessary.

Figures also show that in 2009, 1.8 million Canadians worked in some type of temporary job, which accounted for 12.5 per cent of paid employment, with contract positions accounting for just over one - half of temporary jobs and professionals making up a large proportion of contract employees.

Other promises from leader Philippe Couillard have included the creation of 250,000 new jobs in Quebec over a five - year time span, a $ 160 million stimulus plan for small and medium businesses in the province, and a $ 150 million innovation fund.

Entrepreneurs are the key to meeting the United Nations goals for alleviating extreme poverty and creating hundreds of millions of jobs.

U.S. - based Eli Lilly's high - profile phase 3 failure for solanezumab was a particularly harsh blow, which also cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars and led to job cuts.

However, despite all of the self - inflicted problems with the million - jobs plan, I still have a great deal of sympathy for the Tories.

«Buyer interest stayed elevated in most areas thanks to mortgage rates under 4 % for most of the year and the creation of 1.7 million new jobs edging the job market closer to full employment,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

After all, these SuperEntrepreneurs are good for the countries where they run their businesses, often creating millions of jobs.

-- Liz Wessel, co-founder and CEO of WayUp, a job site and mobile app for college students and recent graduates used by millions of people since its launch in 2014

Self - made billionaire entrepreneurs have created millions of jobs, billions of dollars in private wealth and probably trillions of dollars of value for society,» the report says.

So how do you find good candidates in today's economy with millions of qualified workers looking for a job?

Chief Executive Bob Dudley is in line for a $ 19.6 million compensation package for 2015, a year in which shrinking profit margins triggered by sharp falls in the price of oil led to more than 5,000 job losses at the oil and gas company.

Should monetary policymakers have sacrificed 1 1/2 million jobs for the sake of an extra 1 or 2 % of productivity?

An advocate for both small - business owners and workers, Perry oversees efforts that have included offering more than $ 600 million in financing and technical assistance programs to promote business growth and job creation in economically depressed areas of L.A.

For the hundreds of millions of unemployed people around the world, we don't need jobs — we need work.

«I think it's real tough for anybody to go out and start a business in a world he knows nothing about,» says Tom Golisano, the founder and CEO of Paychex Inc., an $ 870 - million payroll - processing and human - resource - services company based in Rochester, N.Y. «My advice to Mike would be to find a job in a dynamic industry and then to be constantly on the lookout for opportunities within that industry.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

The firm, owned by a consortium of German automakers, will spend an estimated $ 8.5 million to cover the annual salaries for the 50 AI jobs it's looking to fill according to the study.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

It supported 164,000 jobs and made 3,340 loans and other forms of financing to small businesses, generating a surplus of $ 675 million for the Department of Treasury in fiscal year 2014.

Fillon allegedly paid his Welsh wife Penelope Fillon and two of his children close to $ 1 million over the span of a decade for jobs they reportedly didn't perform.

As we wait for the JOBS Act to clear the way for anyone to invest in businesses via SEC - approved crowdfunding platforms, entrepreneurs can post on some websites that are open only to accredited investors, which under SEC rules includes individuals earning at least $ 200,000 a year or those with a net worth of $ 1 million or more.

Brooks's plan for Baxter is so ambitious that it's almost scary: replacing humans in millions of jobs in the U.S. alone.

Last July, 23.1 million people in that age group were actively looking for a job or working, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The JOBS Act, signed into law last spring, includes a provision that will make it legal for small businesses to solicit crowd - based investments of up to $ 1 million.

The job of overseeing the industry touches on issues from protecting water quality for fish in streams near pot grows, to safely collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes from businesses that often operate in cash.

The German government granted a bridging loan of 150 million euros to allow Air Berlin to keep its planes in the air for three months and secure the jobs of its 7,200 workers in Germany while negotiations go on.

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

Environmental groups said the proposed cuts would threaten thousands of jobs and could harm health and safety protections for millions of Americans.

Dan Caulfield, founder of Hire Quality Inc., a $ 2.3 - million Chicago job - placement company for honorably discharged military personnel, embraces the marines» «rule of three» to run his company.

With demand for coding skills stronger than ever, today there are more than 500,000 unfilled programming - related positions across the country, and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million more software development jobs than applicants qualified to fill them.

Tourism is important to the Brazilian economy, accounting for more than 3 % of the country's GDP and 2.5 million jobs in 2016 when the Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro.

On May 16, 2016 Title III of the JOBS Act kicked - in and paved the way for startups and small businesses to raise up to $ 1 million through small investments from lots of people.

Apple is already responsible for creating and supporting over 2 million jobs across the United States and expects to generate even more jobs as a result of the initiatives being announced today.

The Great Recession resulted in the loss of more than 8 million jobs and left a trail of devastation in its wake, but for some, the downturn offered new opportunities.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

After Eiffel won the bidding to design the tower, the government of France surprised him by offering only $ 300,000 for the job — a fraction of the $ 1.6 million budget he'd proposed.

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an award - winning, innovative career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance and part - time job listings, and founder of Remote.co, a one - stop resource for remote teams and companies, and the 1 Million for Work Flexibility initiative.

«A Kauffman Foundation analysis of one proposal in Congress to enact a startup visa found that it could create up to 1.6 million new jobs for Americans over 10 years and add an additional 1.5 percent to economic growth.

For example, millions of jobs primarily held by women, mainly administrative and service jobs, are threatened by the rise of automation, while the slow progress toward pay equity in many industries plays a major role.

For the research, the two companies combed through half a million job ads and surveyed more than 160 British startups to get a detailed picture of whom fledgling companies are looking to hire and at what sort of salaries compared with 2013.

With a multi-million-dollar company, I've had the honor of creating jobs, sowing over $ 1 million into projects we believe in, and the biggest thing we're proud of: creating results for and with our customers.

Within the first two years of my job, two of the seven investments that I led were sold — GroupMe to Skype for about $ 70 million and SinglePlatform to Constant Contact (CTCT) for a reported $ 100 million.

In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

Further to the issue of skills shortages, the government has announced the re-allocation of $ 4 million for a «labour market information portal» and another $ 7 million to «support the relocation of youth and immigrants to areas where job opportunities exist.»