Sentences with phrase «skilled well paid jobs»

Natural gas from shale has the potential to generate many thousands of highly skilled well paid jobs.

New York needs the high - skill good paying jobs this plant provides.

Not exact matches

Policy makers favor the manufacturing sector because it has historically provided good paying jobs for middle - skill workers, or those folks who have more than a high school education but not a four - year college degree.

Tell them you're taking a 75 percent pay cut to prove your negotiating skills and legal background will work well on the job.

The Industrial Revolution replaced entire job descriptions, but more highly skilled and better - paying jobs eventually followed.

Importantly, these jobs have remained well paid and attract highly skilled workers.»

Andrea Luecke, president and executive director of the Solar Foundation, told ThinkProgress that the industry «continues to create skilled well - paying jobs at a really fast clip.»

The retired nurse had been helping hand out cleanup supplies, but prayed for a paying job that better fit her skills and would help pay for repairs on her hurricane - damaged home.

oh and I'm a highly qualified educator with experience of health and education from birth to adult including special needs, with 17 years full time experience, now at home on maternity leave and thinking of giving up my very well paid and highly skilled job to raise my 9 month old twins who are already starting to walk.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

«Far too many of the new jobs currently being created are of the insecure and temporary variety, often with scant access to training and on low rates of pay, when what working people and our economy needs are highly skilled, well - paid jobs with real prospects.»

Fiddling with the fringes of the issue, with fairly miserly funding of R&D and transport, fails to address the fundamental underlying causes: the recent relative atrophy of infrastructure spending and capital investment and a relentless focus since 2010 purely on the number of jobs, rather than quality, skilled, well - paid jobs.

«It is simply not good enough that forty years after the Equal Pay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero saPay Act women still don't earn equal pay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero sapay for equal work, and despite doing better at school and university more women end up in lower skilled and lower paid jobs than men,» Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, Gloria De Piero said.

«These can be pretty good paying jobs regardless of your skill level.»

A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing them to bargain collectively with the employer: when the employer has too much power (e.g., the only job in town), a union can «level the playing field» by controlling a large % of skilled workers and negotiate a better pay or benefits which would otherwise be denied by the employer's access to other labor sources.

Excerpt: «Chris knows that we have to invest in Oregon's community college and state university system to ensure students from all walks of life have the ability to study, train and update their skills so they can compete for good - paying jobs today and be ready for the high - tech jobs of Oregon's next economy.»

Pay is not the only determining factor of whether a job is good or not, and as previous work by JRF has demonstrated jobs that are low skilled, insecure and lack progression opportunities will not lift people out of poverty.

When Indian Point closes in 2021, we'll realize exactly how not whole we are, but we can imagine the consequences already: 1,000 high - skilled, good - paying jobs and the over $ 1.5 billion in economic activity they provide will be gone, together with 25 percent of our baseload power that once was generated locally.

«We want to see more people starting up, leading and working in business and the creation of high - skilled, better - paid jobs,» he said.

Their support will only return if the economy provides them with decent, well paid jobs that offer security and prosperity, which requires a hard - headed assessment of the weaknesses of the pedestrian, laggard sectors of the UK economy and the failure of skills and innovation policy to shift their performance of the last decade.

Cuomo didn't mention that more than 10 percent of the «high - skilled, well - paying jobs» at FitzPatrick are no longer filled.

«These programs produce workers with skills in good - paying jobs that are in demand right here in Erie County, making our county stronger today and into the future.»

«Let's say you have someone working at one of your local manufacturers and they realize they can get a better paying job if they take a training course to somehow advance their skills at the local community college,» Gillibrand said.

Both Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry have failed to engage substantively with the question of how tens of thousands of skilled, well paid and organized jobs in manufacturing and shipbuilding could be protected were the Trident successor programme to be cancelled, as they desire.

«We need to see more better - paid, high - skilled jobs which pay a living wage, but these figures show that progress is slipping,» she said.

«In making Ontario's biotechnology industry one of the largest in North America, thousands of new highly skilled, well paid jobs will be created, generating millions of dollars of economic activity for local economies.»

February 2, 2015 • Many economists say a big missing piece of the economic puzzle is apprenticeships that give high school graduates access to good - paying, higher - skilled jobs in the trades.

As scholars such as Harvard's Robert Schwartz and Georgetown's Anthony Carnevale have shown, «middle skills» jobs remain plentiful and pay well in the U.S. economy — accounting for roughly 30 percent of the jobs likely to be available over the next decade.

Digital and technical skills cut across all workplaces and we need to help students understand that studying subjects like engineering, physics or computer science can be springboards into every industry and into well paid jobs — whether you are working in the city, in a nuclear power plant or for a broadcaster.

The police training is part of a larger focus on SEL within the Oakland district that started in 2011, driven by research showing that children with social and emotional skills are not only more likely to do better in school, but also have better lifelong success, such as attending college and getting good - paying jobs.

Even as the shift to computerized dialing systems famously wiped out the jobs of switchboard operators, it created enormous job growth in new types of jobs that often involved more skill and paid better.

They wanted to see how competing job options affect the market for teachers; does the scarcity of jobs draw in higher - skilled applicants, some of whom might be lost to presumably better - paying jobs in a better market?

I also discussed my plans to add technical training to the curriculum so that students who had no intentions of attending college graduated from high school at least with skills that would help them land good - paying jobs.

First, the technological changes and globalization that have fueled inequality have also increased the skills required for good jobs — which means that schools need to teach higher - level skills if their graduates are to secure jobs that pay middle - class wages.

We have considerable data on the knowledge and skills now generally required to get the better - paying, fast - growing jobs in the economy.

Meanwhile young men with at least some college education (who can get higher - skilled and better - paying jobs) experienced less decline in median income; for those with advanced degrees, median income actually increased by 14 percent.

In 2007, the ITE received an award for effective government from Harvard University's Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, which cited the school's ability to help low academic achievers acquire skills and move into good - paying jobs.

Good paying jobs require a higher level of knowledge and skills than they did at the beginning of the 21st century.

He'll take those skills with him to Austin, where he'll cut red tape and eliminate stifling regulations, so our talented entrepreneurs are free to launch new businesses and create good - paying jobs in our community.

Past efforts to teach American students computer skills haven't always helped workers get better - paying jobs.

Vocational training programs provide an alternative for high school graduates wanting to learn valuable skills in the trades that will prepare them to enter the workforce and obtain a well - paying job.

«Every child should have a fair shot at doing better than their parents before them, and we as a society benefit if more Georgians have the education and job skills needed to attract high - paying jobs.»

Our public schools give Pennsylvania's children the knowledge and skills they need to pursue their dreams after graduation and, ultimately, to get decent jobs with good pay so that they can be contributing members of our society.

For a high paid job, good grades and flawless mark sheet are not enough now; it is only your technical skill that you need to crack the job interview.

I'm new to the ramifications and specific processes involved, but am pursuaded this is the likely model for future publication projects that most benefit the first person on the food chain: the writers / artists who conceived them, who are trying to make some kind of living doing what they do best, hoping to find an audience for their work as a * first * resort rather than wearing themselves out with full - time day jobs of no comparable skill or education preparation — but that pay the bills, maybe — and that leave little energy and reserves for their art.

So if you can't find a paid position right away, it might be beneficial to accept an unpaid one, where you would be reimbursed with career building skills such as interview practice and networking that could help you get a better job than you otherwise would have been able to.

Canadians may need to upgrade their skills to win well - paying and stable jobs, but once that hurdle is cleared, «a career featuring higher stability lies ahead,» Tal said.

Accounting, Nursing, Computer Science, or even a foreign language will teach you a real valuable skill that will qualify you for different, better paying jobs, or make you more marketable in your current field.

More skills and knowledge lead to a better - paying job which will aid in the repayment of student loan debt.

There's an abundance of flexible part time jobs online but it might take a little trial and error to find the one that best suits your skills, schedule and pay requirements.