Sentences with phrase «over jobs and economic growth»

President Ronald Reagan had swept to power by campaigning against «environmental extremists» who he said favored «rabbits» holes» and «birds» nests» over jobs and economic growth.

Not exact matches

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

«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 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).

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.

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.

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.

Homebuyers continue to fork over more dollars to buy properties while we sit with stagnant wage growth, stagnant economic growth and low - wage jobs being about all that's created.

The government has stated over and over that economic growth and job creation have been, still are, and always will be its number one priority.

Domestically, we are faced with rising expenditures over the short to medium term, as we invest more in programmes that will stimulate economic growth and generate jobs.

An experiment in government consolidation has failed in central New York — a victim of a difference of opinion over how to create jobs and promote economic growth in Syracuse and Onondaga County and the continued deterioration of the relationship between the mayor and county executive.

A wave of optimism has swept over American business leaders thanks to the Trump administration, and it is beginning to translate into the sort of investment in new plants, equipment and factory upgrades that bolsters economic growth, spurs job creation — and may finally raise wages significantly.

However, ministers will hope that they will deflect concerns that the legislative programme does not go far enough to boost economic growth or job creation, and controversy over some specific measures such as reform of the House of Lords.

While the final agreement on both of these measures is an improvement over the original Executive Budget proposals, they are not consistent with a strategy to promote economic growth and the creation of good paying jobs.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The broader chemistry enterprise directly employs well over 800,000 people in the United States and serves as an important component of our nation's innovation engine, helping drive job creation and economic growth.

With targeted investments and forward - looking policies, Wisconsin could capitalize on its strengths in sensors and controls for the advanced energy industry to drive economic growth and support over 44,000 jobs annually.

As my colleague Russ Koesterich points out in a recent post, economic data was mixed over the first quarter, with sluggish economic growth, a soft jobs report and weak manufacturing reports leading to diminishing consensus around company earnings.

With over 40 companies housed within the incubator, Dutch Game Garden aims to create job opportunities and economic growth, not only by giving games studio a space to work, but by encouraging cooperation and networking.

What is also in question is whether we can ethically do so by restricting or eliminating the fuels that countries all over the world depend on for 80 % of the energy that makes economic growth, jobs, poverty reduction, health and welfare possible.

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.

Research on behalf of QualitySolicitors suggests that despite continued job growth confirmed in today's employment statistics, economic recovery is being held back by employers concerns over red tape and employment costs.

The IT sector already employs 6.7 million people in America and The World Economic Forum has identified computing jobs (particularly programmers, software developers and data analysts) as a huge growth area over the next two years.

Although our economic recession has had a dramatic impact over the past 2 years resulting in unprecedented job losses, it is a temporary influence as many of the hardest hit occupations, architecture and engineering are expected not only to recover but forecasts show continued growth through 2018.

«Certainly if the 10 - year U.S. Treasury climbs in a predictable steady path due to positive economic news such as positive job growth and steady corporate investment, a narrowing of the [spread over Treasuries] could be easy for lenders to manage,» RCA researchers write.

«That said, we are now almost at the half - way mark in terms of what would be considered a normal amount of new - home construction in a healthy economy, and we need to see consistent improvement like this over an extended period to get back to where the market should be in terms of generating jobs and economic growth.»

«In Canada over the past six months, price increases have slowed except for a few hot markets, but all markets are supported by strong economic fundamentals such as job growth and stable mortgage rates,» Lawby says.