Sentences with phrase «workers from our labor force»

So we have a disturbing picture of mass layoffs combined with plunging help wanted advertising, but the effect on the monthly unemployment rate and weekly unemployment claims is masked by attrition of workers from the labor force.

«America will not be safer or richer by depriving nearly one million young people of their liberty, tearing away 700,000 workers from our labor force or robbing the U.S. economy of $ 460 billion in GDP.

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Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Another way to assess labor market tightness is to look at labor flows — in other words, how workers move between being employed, unemployed (not working, but looking for work), and out of the labor force (neither employed, nor looking for work).4 Figure 11 shows the flow from being employed to unemployed.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that, by 2022, the number of workers over 55 will grow to 25 % of the labor force, up from the 15 % it was in Labor Statistics forecasts that, by 2022, the number of workers over 55 will grow to 25 % of the labor force, up from the 15 % it was in labor force, up from the 15 % it was in 2006.

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

«Everywhere you turned, you saw a lawn sign, a car magnet or a button urging a «No» vote — a sign that NYSUT, and labor, remains a strong force in New York state fighting to protect workers from wealthy special interests.»

Additionally, estimates are that 1 - 3 % of all cotton workers are affected with acute poisoning from the chemicals used on cotton crops and in many places of the world, the textile industry relies on forced or child labor (much like chocolate is) so it is also important to look for fair trade certified cotton.

Responsible for assisting 123 dislocated workers from Hurricane Katrina into training classes for new and permanent positions and helped public assistance recipients with re-entry into the labor force.

At some projects, McFarland has been forced to bring in workers from additional sub-contractors because the firms he had planned to work with were unable to supply enough labor to complete the work on time.