Infrastructure and Economic Stimulus It was striking to me to hear Obama talk about infrastructure projects as a source
of job growth over the next 24 months.
Just saw on Faux News that job growth for this year fell well below the rate
of job growth over each of the previous six years.
What we find here is that the 10 - month change in our economic activity composite is significantly, though imperfectly, related to employment growth over the following two months, above or below the average level
of job growth over the preceding 10 months.
-- The pace
of job growth over the past 3, 6, and 12 months is around 190,000 - 200,000, a strong trend that should put downward pressure on the jobless rate.
Given the fact that they make up 99 percent of this country's employers and the majority
of all job growth over the last 50 years, it would be shame if they kept their opinions concealed when it comes supporting the candidates that support small business.
Not exact matches
The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 %
job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000
jobs.
Adam Belsher, who left his
job in September as vice-president
of the Verizon business unit at RIM after seven years with the company, says the lack
of accountability is partly a result
of the company's rapid
growth over the past decade.
The U.S. wind and solar industries employ
over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for
jobs, thanks to years
of rapid
growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost
of their technologies.
Canada's resource sector was one
of the primary drivers for employment
over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada, so a correction in China would also rob this country
of a key engine for
job growth.
Cohen is also at the center
of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay
of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to
job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment
over the same time period.
Projected
job growth over the next 10 years is below the national average, so lack
of spending power would make it hard for the city to support another small business.
The city's low cost
of living is great, but projected
job growth over the next 10 years is below average.
And if that weren't bad enough, the city's projected
job growth falls short
of the national average, so this could indicate a less - than - stable local economy
over the next 10 years.
A below - average cost
of living and above - average projected
job growth over the next 10 years make Charlotte a solid base for startups.
Boston's projected
job growth over the next 10 years is solid, but its excessive cost
of living makes it an unrealistic place for starting a small business.
Tom Wynn, director
of affluent research at Spectrem, provided several factors for the increased confidence: the steady improvement in
job growth, the steady increase in the major stock market indices since the spring, and a decrease in political ambiguity with the election season
over, which has an effect on at least some people's outlook.
To build the list
of Canada's 100 Best
Jobs, we used data from Statistics Canada, including
jobs that had experienced employment
growth over the past five years, had a minimum median salary
of $ 60,000 and employed at least 5,000 people.
Over lunch, Canadian Business will celebrate the entrepreneurial successes
of this year's PROFIT 500 and STARTUP 50 winners, and give special recognition to companies for achievements in such areas as revenue
growth, international trade and
job creation.
Over the past three months,
job growth has averaged 162,000, similar to the pace
of hiring before the hurricanes.
Posting
growth of around 7 percent, North Carolina was home to just
over 7,600 solar
jobs last year.
However, nonfarm payroll
jobs increased by 1.1 % in Minnesota between November 2014 and November 2015, lower than the national
growth rate
of 1.9 %
over that year.
«There are lots
of other things like slowing
growth, and net interest margins that won't get going, and the brouhaha
over trying to outsource 45
jobs.»
«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.
The following 10
jobs have the worst combination
of low wages and employment
growth over the past five years.
For all the details, head
over to the blog
of Tahmina Watson, author
of The Startup Visa: Key to
Job Growth and Economic Prosperity in America, for an detailed but readable summary
of the 155 - page proposal (hat tip to Feld's blog for the pointer).
Out
of more than 600
jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination
of high wages and employment
growth over the past five years.
Since July 2009, he found that Canadians aged 60 and
over have accounted for about one - third
of all net
job gains, including sizable
growth in the retail sector.
The median salary for this
job is currently $ 90,000, with an extraordinary
growth in wages
of 32 %
over the past five years.
What we're looking for generally is
growth in the number
of jobs over time — so that
Even as the politicos argued
over job growth and a stagnate economy, entrepreneurs kept plugging along, cashing checks and finding themselves with a measure
of security heretofore unheard
of.
The worst case scenario is likely wage
growth higher than expected (0.3 percent or higher month
over month, 2.9 percent to 3 percent annual), with upward revisions from February, and
job growth much higher, all
of which would increase the chances for a Fed rate hike.
Chair Yellen, with real
growth over the recovery a little slower than we thought, output gaps and
job market slack still on the scene, prices appearing to decelerate and wages / compensation revealing little in the way
of threatening pressures, try as I might — and I repeat, I'm solidly in your camp — I don't see the rationale for tightening, even a little.
According to Sperling's Best Places, the recent
job growth (the percentage
of increase in available
jobs over the most recent 12 - month period) in Phoenix is 3.17 percent — higher than the U.S. rate
of 1.59 percent.
Over the period 2010 to 2014, annual average employment
growth was only 0.8 %, well short
of the 1.2 % needed to achieve 1.3 million
jobs by 2020.
In other words,
over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number
of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic
growth and
job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.
The labor market in Fargo shows a lot
of promise, as the city has the second - lowest unemployment rate on our list, behind only neighboring Sioux Falls, S.D. And, future
job growth over the next 10 years is estimated at nearly 43 percent, according to Sperling's.
Given existing U.S. demographics, even if we assume an unemployment rate in 2024
of just 4 %, civilian employment would reach 157.2 million
jobs in 2024, resulting in an average annual
growth rate for civilian employment
of just 0.4 % annually
over the coming 8 years.
Canada has been doing a pretty good
job of supporting its tech startups, but I'm calling on government, private investors, banks and pension funds to double down on that support to help make them the country's engine
of growth over the next decade.
This is the same criticism made in Stephen Gordon's comments about attributing all
job growth over the past eight years to the Conservative government: Much
of this
growth would have happened under most alternative policy scenarios.
We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the
jobs they could be creating in Canada) because
of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters
of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because
of supply management; d) the majority
of Canadian farmers (
over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international
growth opportunities.
In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing
of our internal control
over financial reporting to allow management and, to the extent that we are no longer an «emerging
growth company» as defined in the
JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness
of our internal control
over financial reporting, as required by Section 404
of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act.
San Jose is already building at too slow a rate to keep up with
job growth, so the addition
of 116,250 Amazon HQ2
jobs over ten years would send rents through the roof.
Speaking on Day 2
of the conference, Dr Lawrence Yun, (pictured), Chief Economist for the National Association
of Realtors, predicted that United States housing demand would continue to boom
over next five years, as long as
job growth continued.
Households» expectations have adjusted as well; weak
growth of labour demand has translated into concerns
over job security.
A total
of 69,000 federal government
jobs were lost
over the following 21 months, an exceptional scenario given the
growth of private sector
job gain during that time.
Revisions from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics flipped Decatur's
jobs growth from negative to positive
over the year, though the
growth was meager.
While
job creation has been undeniably strong in recent months (an average
of 290,000
over the last three months), it's the sluggish wage
growth and productivity that appear to be larger issues.
Looking forward, recent
job vacancy and hiring intentions data point to continued solid employment
growth over the remainder
of the year and into 2004, with print - and internet - based indicators
of labour demand improving
over recent months, following weakness
over the first half
of the year (Graph 43).
News media are characterizing the debate
over whether or not to increase rates, as «Should we be more concerned about the pace
of job growth or the threat
of inflation?»
Job growth has been solid for much
of 2014, yet the stock market has been hammered
over the past week
over concerns about Europe's financial footing, the slowdown in China's economy and Ebola outbreaks across three continents.