Sentences with phrase «on jobs and growth»

It is not focused on jobs and growth for the future, or on intellectual property, or on the Communications Bill.

That's why Liberals are focused on a jobs and growth agenda.

Prior to the budget, Mr. Flaherty said the budget focus would be on jobs and growth.

Not exact matches

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

A noted decrease in job growth is less of a concern if it's accompanied by signs «that manufacturing activity is starting to rebound, that businesses are spending more on investment, and that consumers are continuing to spend,» he said.

This increase in regulation is both unfair and inefficient: Compliance with governmental rules and laws is a greater encumbrance on small companies than large ones, and regulation hinders small business formation, growth, and job creation.

In a 2011 op - ed in The Wall Street Journal, President Obama acknowledged this problem, saying «sometimes, those rules have gotten out of balance, placing unreasonable burdens on business — burdens that have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs.»

Andrew Yang is the founder and CEO of Venture for America, a New York City - based nonprofit organization focused on placing top - college graduates in startups for two years in emerging U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Sort by median salary to find the jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).

Stanford says Morneau and the Bank of Canada should use the mandate review to «put everything on the table,» and take a hard look at adopting a completely different target, such as job creation or «sustainable growth» instead of inflation.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Even if tomorrow's jobs report shows strong payroll growth and rising wages, there's still plenty wrong with the economy that policy makers need to focus on.

«Even with this remarkable progress, it remains important to build on these efforts to support further job creation and real wage growth in the years ahead.»

Finally, the economy is on a hot streak: employers have been adding jobs steadily for a year, and growth is running at an annualized rate in excess of 3 %.

Unlike CGI's annual meeting, which is angled toward global development, CGI America focuses specifically on job creation and economic growth in the U.S., employing their trademark, goal - oriented approach.

He cited «expanding trade» and a «focus on jobs, growth and long - term prosperity» as two means to that end, which is hard to square with his government's convoluted positions on foreign investment.

Ride - hailing service Uber inaugurated a support center in Brazil's biggest city on Tuesday with plans to invest 200 million reais ($ 62 million) and create 2,000 jobs, underscoring an aggressive growth strategy in Latin America's biggest nation.

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.

For this list, we eliminated jobs with median salaries over $ 60,000, and ranked the rest based on three criteria: job growth from 2006 to 2011, median compensation (based on a 40 - hour work week) in 2011, and the change in median compensation from 2006 to 2011.

The final rank is based on a weighting of 50 % to job growth, 40 % to median compensation and 10 % to change in compensation.

Rankings are based on four criteria: employment growth (25 %), median compensation (based on a 40 - hour workweek) in 2013 (40 %), the change in median compensation from 2007 — 08 to 2012 — 13 (10 %), and projected demand for those jobs using data from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (25 %).

For this list, we selected jobs with at least 10,000 employed individuals and ranked them based on employment growth between 2006 and 2011.

Once a country has solidified its food supply, it can then concentrate on economic growth, jobs and ultimately education.

Every major economy on earth is expanding at once, and the growth is creating jobs while tempering fears of popular discontent.

Merck (mrk) CEO Ken Frazier resigned this morning from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, a group of business leaders tapped to advise the president on «how best to promote job growth and get Americans back to work again.»

Entrepreneurship and new ventures have the most significant impact on the economy, driving job growth, shaping the future of work, and creating entirely new products and services.

Chairman and CEO Bob Iger resigned for the same reason from the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, which Trump established to advise him on how government policy impacts economic growth and job creation.

Job growth in this category has declined 9 % over the last 5 years, and while there is growth on the horizon it will likely continue to be fairly modest.

To determine this list, LinkedIn's data team analyzed billions of searches by the site's more than 500 million members, considering employee growth, job seeker interest and engagement with the company on the platform, as well as how well these upstarts were able to attract talent away from the established players on LinkedIn's Top Companies list.

«Statistics show if you have a meaningful percentage of ownership and some communication that the employee's job impacts the value of the shares they have in their accounts, these companies outperform their peers by a factor of 10 percent on a compounded annual revenue and [EBITDA] growth basis,» says Josephs.

Besides the non farm payroll numbers, she relies on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — which shows layoffs, quits and hires as a share of employment — and the real pace of spending growth.

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).

The recent slowdown in economic growth and job creation has put the government under increased pressure to become more active on stimulating growth.

The job market is on a tear, growth is picking up, the Fed may continue to raise rates, and other countries and regions such as China and Europe are going through their own changes and weakness.

This may cause more sluggishness on the hiring front, and a sort of self - fulfilling prophecy when it comes to jobs and growth.

It's now time to move our economy forward and focus on the key economic question before us: How do we create strong middle - class jobs and continue our economic growth?

Economic growth in China has long been premised on high levels of savings and investment, growth of manufacturing and exports, migration of low - productivity rural workers to higher - productivity urban jobs and integration of new technologies.

Twenty - three years later, scholars and policy makers often disagree about the impact that NAFTA has had on economic growth and job generation in the U.S..

Trump's team, on the other hand, estimates that under his tax plan, the economy will average 3.5 % growth over the next ten years and create 25 million new jobs.

In an email to AL.com Tuesday, Scott Reed, the senior political strategist with the national chamber, said the group plans to «spend the next 60 days working on job growth initiatives and tax reform.»

In a recent study that de-emphasized the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. economy, economists David Autor (MIT), David Dorn (University of Zurich) and Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego) stress the role of China's emergence on job growth and wages in the U.S..

The prior two months were revised up a net 44,000, leaving job growth of 221,000 on a three - month average and 205,000 on a six - month.

Rapid demand growth; commodity price volatility; the influence of a broad range of global conditions on wages: all these factors can trigger large changes in relative prices, and this makes the job of capturing underlying inflation harder.

This conference will focus on the relatively overlooked second issue by engaging key Canadian and U.S. economists to explore the reasons for the lack of job growth in the United States, to contrast the U.S. experience with that of Canada, and to offer potential lessons from these experiences.

Nevertheless, these unpopular responses had a larger combined impact on growth and jobs than the fiscal interventions.

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.

Neil Irwin's WaPo piece this AM provides a useful review of the different ways economists and politicians are thinking about the short - term impact of spending cuts on growth and jobs.

-- 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.

A smart government would focus on making the critical investments that will strengthen economic growth, productivity, and job creation.

The claim surprised me because 2 million new jobs, on top of current projected job growth, would likely drive the unemployment rate below 3 percent — a level not seen in a half century and would be inconsistent with the claims of BRT Chairman Jamie Dimon that businesses can't now fill all their job vacancies.