Sentences with phrase «over job growth»

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.

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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.

The minister made the boast again this week in a speech to employers in Halifax, noting that «our government has created over one million net new jobs... the strongest job growth over the recovery among G7 countries.»

Job creation is projected to slow down over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and a slower growth in international demand for oil products, but the growing demand for base metals is expected to buoy employment opportunities.

«We had the ability to create an additional billion dollars in economic growth, and create over a thousand new jobs,» says president Scott Thurlow.

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.

«Italy has been implementing reforms over the recent past and these are already producing tangible results, but also asking for Europe, which looks at stability, rigor, but also growth and jobs,» Padoan said.

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.

What's more, full - time job growth has kept pace with part - time over the past year.

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.

If the other items in the plan have a similar jobs - to - GDP relationship, the GDP growth figures for the three years are over 20 % each year.

Job creation is, however, projected to slow over the next few years due to technological advances in oil sands processing and slower growth in international demand for oil products.

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.

Job growth over the next 10 years is expected to be just above the national average.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Opportunity: Though it's still a relatively small field, with just over 7,200 positions currently, it is poised for growth, with the highest projected demand among the top 20 jobs — predictions suggest there will be 1.59 jobs for every qualified worker by 2022.

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.

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.

As you can see in the chart below, here in the U.S., government jobs growth has broadly outpaced all other industries over the years.

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.

The U.S. economy likely created 2 million new jobs last year, but tepid wage growth is keeping inflation in check and raising questions over the Fed's 2018 rate path.

-- 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.

Despite disappointing job growth last month, the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since early 2008, sharpening the debate within the Federal Reserve over whether to raise interest rates when policy makers meet in two weeks.

A «real budget «would put aside optics and ideology and undertake a review the government's fiscal policy and ask how it could be adjusted to strengthen economic growth and job creation, while maintaining a sustainable fiscal structure over the medium term.

In their April budget the Conservatives allocated only about $ 9 billion for jobs and growth over the next five years.

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.

The S&P 500 rebounded 0.5 percent from a two - day selloff yesterday as optimism over corporate earnings and jobs growth outweighed Federal Reserve concern that investors may be growing complacent about risk.

Simply delaying the target for deficit elimination by one year and eliminating unjustified and ineffective tax preferences could free up as much as $ 10 billion annually, or $ 50 billion over five years to support economic growth and job creation.

It shows a marked deceleration in job growth, from about 190,000 over the 12 - month period to 121,000 over the past three months.