Toronto is in Desperate Need of Skilled Carpenters With the booming condo construction, major transit projects like the Eglinton LRT, and mixed-use projects such as The Well, Mike Yorke, President of the Carpenters District Council of Toronto, says finding workers in the sector is essential. According to Yorke, close to 500 carpenters are predicted to …
The United States has seen unprecedented job growth over the last decade. November 2019 was the 110th month of reported job increases, the longest in US history. In the past five years, the number of people with a job in the US increased by 7.5 percent or 11 million. The 24/7 Wall Street website reviewed the …
Watching the US economy over the past ten years makes the old saying ring true: “Expansions don’t die of old age”. As of December 2019, there has been expansion of the US economy for 126 straight months, making it the longest stretch in the country’s history, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. This …
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The demographics are changing among truck drivers, and the number of semi-truck drivers in the United States is at a record high, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Immigrants from western and northern India are drawn to the trucking industry. Many of the immigrants follow Sikhism and arrived in America in the 1980s, fleeing ethnic …
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Hiring in the U.S. increased in November 2019 to the highest rate since January of the same year and wages increased over three percent. Employers paid no attention to trade conflicts and a worldwide slowdown and added 266,000 positions. In October, the unemployment rate dropped from 3.6 percent to 3.5 percent, matching a 50-year low, …
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The economic benefits tech jobs bring are being concentrated in several cities in the United States, said a report by The Brookings Institution and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Boston, San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle are the five metro areas accounting for 90 percent of all growth in the tech sector. …
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After the British election in late-2019, in which the Conservative Party won a majority vote, internet searches by people in the UK for jobs in Canada spiked. According to one report, searches for open jobs abroad increased 25 percent after the election results were published. Canada led the results of the countries searched for, …
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The province of Ontario is requesting the Canadian federal government to double the number of economic immigrants allowed to relocate to the region. They are hoping this will provide workers for the skilled labor shortage the province is experiencing. Vic Fedeli, the economic development minister, said the added growth of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program …
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According to one economist, January 2020 is showing a strong start to the year, and one more sign the expansion has continued to pull employees into the workforce Not only is the participation in the labor force on the rise, but there is a pickup in employment. This is a sign that the job market …
New Year Off to Good Start with 225,000 New Jobs in the USA Read More »
A growing number of US economists have been bullish about increases in 2020 The National Association for Business Economics reported that well over half expected the US gross domestic product (GDP) to increase by 1.1 percent to two percent. A growing number even expected higher increases of up to three percent. The US, Canada, and …
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