Sentences with phrase «much local employment»

Rypkema points out that new construction is about 50 - 50 labour and materials, whereas restoration and renovation can be as much as 75 % labour - for every dollar spent you get twice as much local employment, and use about half the resources.

Not exact matches

However, opportunities to increase the local production of staple crops could provide much needed employment prospects by creating businesses that add value to the processing of crops.

They see the EU as intervening far too much in the economy (regulating standards, sustaining some employment rights) and far too concerned with shaping our culture and values (all that protecting of local products and brands, forcibly bringing peoples together).

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«Historically,» it notes, «state and local governments have cut employment in recessions later than, and by much less than, the private sector.»

Second, we wanted to see what kind of momentum the local job market has, so we checked Bureau of Labor Statistics stats to find how much employment grew between March 2013 and March 2014.

These high visitor numbers contribute greatly to the local economy and provide much needed employment in the region.

In the early 17th century Dutch Republic, Hendrick de Keyser played an important role in developing the Amsterdam Renaissance style, which has local characteristics including the prevalence of tall narrow town - houses, the «trapgevel» or Dutch gable and the employment of decorative triangular pediments over doors and windows in which the apex rises much more steeply than in most other Renaissance architecture, but in keeping with the profile of the gable.