Not exact matches
If one breaks down employment by
sector, the statistics
show that employment in manufacturing and other
sectors that classical economists called «productive» — primary production in agriculture and mining, secondary production in industry, power production and
transportation — has not risen since 1929.
Airlines, gaming and paper products were Friday's best performing
sectors, while coal, oil services, precious metals and
transportation show relative weakness.
Using a spatial economic model of the US dairy
sector, the results
showed that investment in two dairy plants in Pennsylvania would bring the state millions of dollars in additional revenue and slash
transportation costs.
Unsurprisingly, as
shown in the table below, the agencies with the most enrollees are public authorities, such as the Port Authority and Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, and other agencies most likely to hire higher - salaried professionals and technicians who have significant private -
sector experience.
In making his way up the ranks of permanent government, from the consumer affairs department to the Department of Telecommunications and Energy to the Economic Development Corporation, where he worked as senior vice president for
transportation and commerce, Ward has also
shown himself comfortable using the proverbial revolving door, moving between the public and private
sectors as the need arises, and endearing himself to both public and private constituencies.
EPA's greenhouse gas inventory released yesterday
shows that the
transportation and electricity
sectors now supply about the same amount of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
Experience at the Department of
Transportation, in other Federal agencies, and in the private
sector have
shown that alternative dispute resolution (ADR) can improve communications and achieve mutually acceptable solutions more effectively than traditional, non-collaborative processes.
But, as the Keeling Curve
shows, these processes are not capable of keeping up with fossil fuel emissions from the electricity generation and
transportation sectors.
Preliminary research
shows that carbon sequestration could be a game changer for the agriculture industry, much in the way that EVs were expected to be for the
transportation sector.
The
transportation sector has
shown early signals of adaptation too, as automakers keep establishing ambitious plans for electrification of their future fleets and ten states so far have Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) programmes to encourage the deployment of electric vehicles.
The
transportation study
shows how a combination of electrification and increase in vehicle efficiency could significantly lower emissions from this
sector.
The graphic below
shows a collection of carbon pricing programs, illustrating that most price the power and industrial
sectors (first two columns), some price
transportation and buildings (middle two columns), and a few also price waste and forestry (far right columns).
The mining, logging and construction and trade,
transportation and utilities, other services and leisure and hospitality
sectors have
shown minor job losses year - to - year.
Sectors showing improvements were education and health services; trade,
transportation and utilities and professional and business services.
Elsewhere in the private
sector, employment in manufacturing, construction, wholesale trade,
transportation, information, and financial activities
showed little change in October.