Sentences with phrase «unemployment areas»

I might suggest relocation services for people from high unemployment areas.

Small business vendors, including minority or disadvantaged businesses, women - owned businesses, veteran - owned businesses and small businesses operating from HUBZone or high unemployment areas, are a vital part of our commitment to world - class customer response and will be given an equal opportunity to compete for Clean Harbors» business in this environment.

The EB - 5 visa was established in 1990 as a job - creation program, offering foreign investors a green card for an immigrant in return for a capital investment of $ 500,000 in a commercial enterprise in a rural or high - unemployment area.

Today's NY Times editorial argues, that Congress should fix a visa program encouraging investment in high - unemployment areas that is being exploited in New York by gerrymandered maps that... Continue reading →

Today's NY Times editorial argues, that Congress should fix a visa program encouraging investment in high - unemployment areas that is being exploited in New York by gerrymandered maps that make wealthy areas look poorer.

To qualify, the zone must be designated undeveloped, poor or high unemployment area.

Prior to becoming COO at Gapingvoid, Jessica was Director of a Lean Six Sigma management consulting firm where she restructured Fortune 100 business operations, healthcare facilities, and created job growth on behalf of governments in high - unemployment areas.

The industry agrees that increases in minimum investment amounts, regulatory provisions and incentives for investment in rural and high unemployment areas are required and overdue.

While I understand the need to encourage investment in rural and high unemployment areas, I would like to see the abolition of targeted employment areas, or at least incentives that make targeted employment areas the exception rather than the rule.

Significant differences on three key issues tend dominate these debates: (1) how to define rural and high unemployment areas; (2) whether the EB - 5 program should have special visa allocations for projects in rural and distressed urban areas; and (3) what the minimum investment amount should be.

This is not necessarily a significant issue, but the current minimum investments of $ 1 million (or $ 500,000 if in a high unemployment area) for an individual investor have been in place for over 25 years and an increase of those minimum investments is likely.