Sentences with phrase «where jobs and the economy»

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Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

So good earnings news from Berkshire (BRKA), especially on the same day where the jobs numbers were a lot stronger than expected, and showed signs that wages are finally increasing, would seem to be a really good sign for the economy.

It becomes a way for a company not just to control its destiny in a chaotic economy but to simply do a better job in a world where quality and timeliness count all the more.

«But in an economy that revolves around mobility and flexibility, a house that can't be sold becomes an economic trap,» preventing people from moving to where the jobs are.

Yet much of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid end of the marketplace, where physicians, lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.

The cofounder and CEO of Thumbtack has kept a close eye on the rise of the «gig economy» — or on - demand, short - term, unskilled jobs where employees are usually referred to as independent contractors — and he doesn't see how it could provide people with meaningful sources of income long - term.

Apple today announced a new set of investments to build on its commitment to support the American economy and its workforce, concentrated in three areas where Apple has had the greatest impact on job creation: direct employment by Apple, spending and investment with Apple's domestic suppliers and manufacturers, and fueling the fast - growing app economy which Apple created with iPhone (R) and the App Store (R).

«I think in the country, people said at where we are right now, we need to have some of these things in place, but now with a dynamic and robust economy and what we see happening right now with the tax cuts and job bill, it makes a lot of things more possible,» Kelly said.

Still, in an economy where low and middle class consumers are bogged down by weak job growth and stagnating wages, better to have the rich spending than nobody at all.

John Doerr lecture at UC Berkeley in a Q&A session where he discussed topics such as startups, healthcare, education, policy & politics, venture capital, the sharing economy, and jobs in emerging markets.

In this world, it is difficult to make precise predictions about where the jobs and growth in our economy are going to come from in the future.

«This is a significant moment in time where Metro residents and businesses can decide between a strong economy and job creation or more congestion and less service,» said John Winter, CEO of the BC Chamber of Commerce, a founding Coalition member.

The one where they are supposed to chant «Job's Job's Job's» everytime the economy is mentioned in an attempt to make it seem like Obama is responsible for the unemployment numbers when it's really the Bush economy and bank bailout coupled with a do nothing republican congress that is keeping us above 8 % unemployment as the republicans have been planning since Nov 4th 2008.

«a day in the life» is the rambling monologue of a housewife (not a million miles from myself;) juggling with household chores and sorting out the kids, answering the phone while cooking dinner and worrying about the economy — but at the end of the day when the jobs are done, you can escape from everyday worries by going for a run, a bike ride or for a swim — where you're alone to think stuff through or think of nothing at all — and certainly not about the phonebill or the mountain of ironing that needs doing.

Thing is, well, this recession we're in... I can tell the economy is better than it was a year ago when announcements of job layoffs and company bankruptcies clogged the television news hours, but you know, it's not to the point where many of us are willing to spend freely on non-essential living expenses.

Where this government's failure on growth and jobs has led to their failure on the deficit, the next Labour government will rise to the challenge: action to strengthen the recovery and our economy for the long - term; alongside a tough deficit reduction plan.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

(Obama will be coming to NYC from Buffalo, where he is making just one stop — not open to the public — at a metal fabrication plant where he will discuss the economy and jobs as part of his ongoing Main Street tour).

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise...

He told delegates: «In a modern global economy where people can move their investment from one country to another at the touch of a button and companies can relocate jobs overnight, the economics of high taxation are a thing of the past.»

Studies of employee ownership in the U.S., where this idea is a major part of the economy, show that employee owners are one - third as likely to be laid off as employees in conventional firms and the employee ownership companies add about 2.5 % more jobs per year than would have been expected absent employee ownership while providing 2.5 times the total retirement assets.

«It's sort of an extension of the Rust Belt, where manufacturing jobs were sent out of the state, and jobs and the economy are a big factor for these small - town voters,» said one Republican strategist, noting that Democrats faced similar fates in nearby Ohio and Pennsylvania.

«Continued unemployment and the growing gap between the rich and the poor are the greatest threats to our prosperity,» said Quinn, who is widely expected to run for mayor, in a speech in Midtown at an Association for Better New York event, where she unveiled what she described as «concrete and immediate steps we can take to create jobs today and strengthen our economy for years to come.»

Providers of government «work programmes» will be paid by results, but in a recession, where the economy is stagnant, the public sector is shedding staff and 20 % of young people are unemployed, it's hard to see where the millions of extra jobs that will be needed to deliver these «results» are going to come from.

In Kingston, where film and TV (and increasingly new media) production has been identified as a core industry in economic development plans, Noble said he hopes the sector would produce local jobs, rather than just periodically inject of money into the city's economy.

In other changes, another former NEC chair and former general secretary of the Fabian Society, Baroness Hayter, joins the Cabinet Office team and, with Lord Tunnicliffe, the team covering business, innovation and skills, where Labour said it would focus work on its concerns about jobs and growth in the economy.

«Our focus has been to bring jobs and boost local economies in Upstate New York, where decades of decline have taken their toll in our communities,» Governor Cuomo said.

I look forward to partnering with Senator Gillibrand and President Obama in Washington on behalf of working families all across the 20th District, where I will fight to create jobs, provide middle class tax relief, and offer new ways to meet our most pressing challenges, so we can turn our economy around.»

Building on an economy that creates jobs for the youth where they can get to experience life and then after some season we should be looking for jobs in the economy and then after a certain season enter politics.

Where we have a good economy with 44,000 new jobs and where we've governed in a bi-partisan way, and I think that really separates me from the vitriolic campaigns going on around the country,» Astorino Where we have a good economy with 44,000 new jobs and where we've governed in a bi-partisan way, and I think that really separates me from the vitriolic campaigns going on around the country,» Astorino where we've governed in a bi-partisan way, and I think that really separates me from the vitriolic campaigns going on around the country,» Astorino said.

Brian McKenzie, President, New York State Distillers Guild said, «It's refreshing to do business in an environment where the State recognizes our contributions to the economy — creating jobs, generating tax revenue, supporting agriculture and creating new tourism opportunities.»

The case is becoming ever - more urgent as our economy contracts and, potentially, heads into a depression as our public spending spirals out of control; there are not enough jobs to go around as it is, and Jacqui Smith's plan to let in thousands of Zimbabwean refugees begs the question: where the hell are we supposed to put them?

His message is based on a bet that the economy is flagging, so he'll focus most where unemployment is worst: in spiedie country (which lost jobs between April 2014 and 2013, the latest state figures show) and tomato pie land, long - depressed despite the promise of a coming chip fab.

The most notorious train wreck between the environment and the economy is in the Pacific Northwest, where the clash was billed by the Bush administration as spotted owls versus logging jobs.

So, it's very important for politicians to understand the importance of science and technology, not because it's a good thing to talk about, but especially in an age of today where we are in a globalized economy, where competition is — I tell my students, if you can not work hard, by the time they will graduate, the jobs will be taken away — you have to constantly work hard and think creatively and engage yourselves in a way, in a globalized economy.

We will have an education system that differentiates between students and finds every child where he or she is in the early years, then gives her the understanding, guidance, increasing academic challenge, and support necessary to traverse each level of our education system successfully, ultimately emerging — after some years of post secondary education — ready for success in a job and in our economy, as a citizen, the head of a family, and a lifelong learner.

The founders» vision of a well - oiled meritocracy, with individuals slotted into educational institutions appropriate to their abilities and streamed into jobs where they could best contribute to a growing economy, apparently fit the temper of the country as it emerged from World War II and entered the cold war.

There is also an urgent need for education systems to impart higher skills aligned with the demands of growing economies, where many jobs are being automated and skill sets are changing fast.

At what point does the government recognize that the economy can not recover with an unsound banking system and a nation where we now export American jobs.

«Superintendent Vallas rightly realizes that a stronger commitment to educating our children for tomorrow's jobs will make a Bridgeport a place where people want to live and work, where companies want to invest and hire people, and where our strong communities help create a stronger economy.

But despite the president's assertion that every component of his plan has a history of bipartisan support and won't add to the deficit, such measures face an uphill battle in a divided Congress where many Republicans are skeptical that more spending will improve the economy and create jobs.

«Governor Malloy will deliver the keynote address at the National Executive Services Corps (NESC) annual meeting in New York City, where he will speak about his efforts to reinvent Connecticut and jumpstart the state's economy to create new jobs for the 21st century.»

The modern economy has left behind the nearly two - thirds of workers without a college degree.5 Over the past 50 years, job creation has mainly been in industries such as health care; business and financial services; education; and government services, where a large proportion of jobs require some postsecondary training or college degrees.6 Meanwhile, the share of jobs in industries that historically have not required any postsecondary training has shrunk dramatically.

DAYTON, OH — U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari today toured the widening and modernizing of I - 75 in Dayton, Ohio as part of the Obama Administration's «Build Week,» a week - long tour by Department of Transportation officials to showcase projects that are already making a big difference in the economy by spurring economic development and creating jobs in the communities where they are being built.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation John Porcari today toured the widening and modernizing of I - 75 in Dayton, Ohio as part of the Obama Administration's «Build Week,» a week - long tour by Department of Transportation officials to showcase projects that are already making a big difference in the economy by spurring economic development and creating jobs in the communities where they are being built.

According to research by Neil Irwin and Josh Katz of The Upshot, «Counties with Trump support correlate with counties where voters have less education, work in old - economy jobs, and when asked about their ethnicity say «I'm an American.»»

These thought - provoking works of narrative nonfiction, memoir, and a graphic novel in essays portray places in decline or busy reinventing themselves; ask where we are and where we might be heading in terms of jobs and the economy; and reveal what it's like to immigrate to twenty - first - century America.

Four agents discuss how the economy is affecting their jobs, where they're finding new writers, and what totally freaks them out about MFA students.

It is not the same as working for a large corporation, where a sudden downturn in the economy can result in streamlining, and jobs being lost.

With today's down economy where there are fewer jobs and competition is more, what can do you if you lose your job?