Sentences with phrase «to increase labor»

Higher prices because of increased labor costs and other expenses have led some consumers to turn to more at - home cooking.

When labor was scarce and raw materials and sinks for pollution were large, it made sense to concentrate on increasing labor productivity.

This would increase labor force participation and economic growth.

To turn around and propose immigration policies to increase the labor supply in the sector when unemployment is highest is crazy rather than realist.

Many firms also need more dough to pay for increasing labor and transportation costs.

Their system has increased labor efficiency in its test warehouse by up to 50 %.

The takeaway here is that each innovation increases our labor productivity, meaning we can do more work more efficiently, reaching our desired standard of living along the way.

For now, that means increased labor costs, which weigh on restaurant profitability in the short - term.

Several important influencers affected the foodservice industry's performance last year, including the country's unstable political climate and increased labor challenges.

In elementary schools we had to increase labor hours to have staff identify and count meals in the classroom.

While the incorporation of services will likely increase labor costs, these costs are easily scalable based on the success of a particular service.

Increasing labor force participation is often a goal of policymakers who seek to improve family economic security and promote equal opportunities for women.

Even a one percent rise in literacy skill scores can increase labor productivity by as much as 2.5 percent, boosting output by as much as $ 225 billion.

Thus, insisting on strong English skills as a condition of coming to America is likely to increase labor market competition and suppress wages.

City and county transportation services often have increased labor needs during storm seasons.

Green chile is typically picked and de-stemmed by hand which increases labor costs.

It requires a lot of increased labor.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, said the $ 15 minimum wage proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this week could cost New York businesses more than $ 10 billion a year in increased labor costs.

Other recent work suggests that ART, although costly, will pay for itself and more by increasing labor productivity, reducing the need for orphan care and deferring medical treatment costs (S. Resch et al..

«This is a pro-business issue,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. «You have a lot of firms that lose workers; making child care accessible and affordable can increase the labor pool.»

Gold miners have experienced increased labor costs and taxes, resulting in a higher replacement cost per ounce of gold.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

Thus, John Maynard Keynes, writing in a similar situation during the late 1930s, rightly emphasized the need for policy approaches that both promoted business confidence — the cheapest form of stimulus — and increased labor compensation.

Historically, Kangfa Food wanted to address some specific issues, such as increasing labor costs, raw material quality variations and insufficient production capacity.

«Reproductive performance can be maintained or enhanced in well - managed group housing systems... without increasing labor,» the researchers concluded.

Yantai Lushun Foodstuff installed a Helius C 640 free - fall sorter in response to rapidly increasing labor costs and the fact that it was becoming more and more difficult to recruit young people to work as sorters.

The goal of the workshop is to provide education, training and support for labor and delivery nurses to increase labor support skills and the use of non-pharmacologic pain management strategies.

The net impact of these changes is to substantially increase Labor's margin, up from 5.3 % at the 2010 election to an estimated 9.2 % on the new boundaries.

«Our study suggests that the effect of human capital on economic growth is larger in high - quality - of - life counties — natural amenities such as clean air and temperate climate, could potentially attract human capital and perhaps increase labor productivity, thus boosting the effect of human capital on growth,» said Fan.

«There [are] a lot of employers who will bring in H - 1Bs to just increase labor supply in the U.S.,» Hira says.

This is a main challenge facing agronomists; to overcome increased labor cost and strong pollution caused by the application of chemicals in rice cultivation.

Not every student at Runkle was eating an ideal diet, but the school's cafeteria lights a way toward marketing school food that is both more healthful and more palatable, using existing resources, whole foods, and trading increased labor costs for higher sales and lower food costs.

Still, some say that the West Virginia teachers» strike was a harbinger of things to come, with increased labor activism on the horizon.

Weeds and insects increase labor costs everywhere.

Utilizing a temp - to - hire strategy to managing increasing labor requirements while containing labor costs.

The House Republicans rightly point out that the proposed increase in low - skill immigration will increase the labor market competition facing a group that already has an unemployment rate of over 10 % in order to reduce the labor costs of employers.

Initiated the development of a widely applicable technique to precisely estimate quantity using quick volume measurement, which increases labor efficiency and clarity of results.

She could also be sitting and gently pressing herself down on an exercise ball, meanwhile doing all her relaxation breathing and other techniques she learned to stay calm and handle the pain of increasing labor.

If enacted, JCT estimates that Camp's discussion draft would increase labor force participation by an average of between 0.3 and 1.5 percent each year this decade, and increase private sector employment by between 0.4 and 1.5 percent.

Custodial parents may also need to increase their labor supply which limits the time and energy devoted to the child.

There are places that had prosperity for a time because an industry grew large, and then that industry went into decline, or at least, increased labor productivity reduced employment in that industry.

«It shows you how far this governor has gone to increase labor costs on small businesses,» Durant said.

Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

The White House has repeatedly called for increasing the minimum wage, a move which would increase labor costs for many small businesses.

They did so to avoid ancillary costs that included opportunity costs stemming from regulatory capital requirements imposed on «aged» fails (starting at five days overdue), increased labor costs of diverting back - office personnel to reduce the backlog of unsettled trades, and customer dissatisfaction.