ShareThisHow does a person go about getting a gov. job when they have an MBA/Construction Management degree in the…?
market we have now?….I am asking this for someone else. This person was transferred to the west coast for a job & had moved around but might want to come back to the MD/D.C. area…he is kind of negative listening to the news & people who have limited ways of looking at things….He now has his Master’s & other things that go along but I want to be of some support & don’t know anything about all of this….Is there a site to look for jobs he can do?…what is the best thing he can get now with the education he has?….any help or clarity about this issue is appreciated….I think there must be a new influx of job opening in this area cause I keep hearing about construction improving but how can we find out where to apply & what the best move to make would be with the new degree?
Am I having deja vu?? Didn't Obama ALREADY promise construction jobs, green jobs, etc?? Where are they?
.If this stuff actually worked, why didn’t his FIRST "stimulus" create jobs in any of these areas??
I mean this is literally THE VERY SAME bullsh*t he said to pass the first stimulus.
Do you think it will work AGAIN??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_jobs
Obama proposed new spending for highway and bridge construction, for small business tax cuts and for retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. He said he wanted to extend economic stimulus programs to keep unemployment insurance from expiring for millions of out-of-work Americans and to help laid-off workers keep their health insurance. He proposed an additional 0 apiece in stimulus spending for seniors and veterans and aid to state and local governments to discourage them from laying off teachers, police officers and firefighters.
why are prople so easily brainwashed into believing things by the news media?
it seems to me so many people will believe any thing they read in the news papers or hear on T,V, don’t they realize those people have an agenda, and will report things that is most suitable for their cause?for example and no offense intended, the news media have constantly bombbarded the public with how dangerous a cops or firemans jobs are and what hero’s they are, when the insurancr co,s who keep statistics on all professions and catorize them in the order of claims or deaths per 1000,the most dangerous at 1 such s test pilots etc, farmers are in the 27th group construction workers 25th roofers 18th cops 92nd fireman 96th office workers 98th??? lets all try to use our heads some and not let the news media keep feeding us so much B,S, and raise hell with them when they try, we want true facts,
How can the economy be on the path to growth without job increases?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_economy_us_summers
I want an answer not your rants.
Im confused, how can an economy grow if people keep losing thier jobs? Thats like saying ur building a house faster but u keep firing the construction workers building it, i want to know HOW this is possible, thats all?
how can i get my parents to come home? why do they leave me by myself all the time?
My dad has been working out of town a lot for his job because they got some projects around the state.(hes the co-owner of a house construction business). He would leave during the week and stay in whatever town the job was in, and come home to see me and my step mom on the weekends. and every two weeks or so he would stay home for the week and work on in town projects. now my dad stopped coming home on the weekends and my step mom is just going to the towns my dad is in on the weekends. and now shes just staying with him up there all the time and they never come home. i havent seen my dad in about 3 weeks and i get the vibe that they dont want me to come see them. im 15 years old, female, and i basically live by myself in this big house. they dont answer the phone when i call, and i really miss my dad and step mom. and if they do come home on the weekends, they go camping and wont let me go with. my step mom has been my step mom for about 4 years now, and i really like her. she and my dad are more like my friends than my parents. so why are they doing this to me? do you find it weird?
hes been getting out of town jobs for about 2-3 months now
and i can pretty much take care of myself, i can drive and they gave me a credit card so i can buy food and whatever
SmarTrend Morning Market Update: July 1, 2010
US stock futures are trading lower Thursday as investors continue to worry that the economy is slowing down and ahead of Friday’s key jobs report. The Labor Department is due to release a report on initial claims at 8:30 AM ET. Economists expect that claims fell to 452000 last week, from 457000 a week earlier. Reports also due out include construction spending, pending home sales and manufacturing data. Economists expect that construction spending fell by 0.8% in May, during the first month after the tax credit ended. The National Association of Realtors’ pending home sales likely fell to 98.4 in May from 110.9 in April. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index likely fell in June to 59 from 59.7 in May. In corporate news, Ford (NYSE:F), as well as other automakers, will be reporting June sales throughout the day. Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) may be in focus after its board of directors said it may buy back up to billion of shares. TheDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading 16.00 points below fair value, the S&P500 (INX) futures are trading 2.50 points below fair value, and the Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) futures are trading 5.50 points below fair value.
What does each .1 of a percent represent in numbers of people in unemployment numbers?
Unemployment shot up to 5.1 percent from 4.8 in February, continuing the string of bad economic news that suggests the economy has entered a recession after years of poor jobs growth under President Bush. The mismanaged, weak economy is continuing to take a toll on working families.
Dismal Employment Numbers: 80,000 Jobs Lost
By David Madland
April 4, 2008
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For the first time in five years, the U.S. economy lost jobs for three consecutive months, according to figures released today by the Department of Labor. Unemployment shot up to 5.1 percent from 4.8 in February, continuing the string of bad economic news that suggests the economy has entered a recession after years of poor jobs growth under President Bush. The mismanaged, weak economy is continuing to take a toll on working families.
In March, employment was down by 80,000 jobs, and since the start of the year the economy has lost 232,000 jobs. The last time the economy saw three straight months of employment decline was April 2003. Today’s release also indicates that job losses in January and February were worse than initially reported: Employment in those months was revised downward by 67,000 jobs.
The number of unemployed persons rose to 7,815,000 in March. The last time the number of unemployed was so high was in December 2004, and the number of unemployed has not increased as much over the course of a year since August 2002. While the unemployment rate increase of 0.3 percentage points is a significant jump from February, it should more accurately be viewed as a continuation of a year-long trend of rising unemployment.
These most recent job losses come on top of a period of very weak job growth, making today’s news that much more troubling. Over the past year, the economy has created only 536,000 jobs—far less than the pace needed just to keep up with population growth. In contrast, the economy created about 2 million jobs in 2006, which was a relatively weak year of economic recovery. In the late 1990s, the economy was creating 3 million jobs per year.
Job losses were widespread. The collapsing housing market continued its downward pull on the economy, but significant losses were felt in many other sectors, especially manufacturing and professional services. Job losses were led by the struggling construction sector, where 51,000 jobs were lost in March. Since March of last year, construction has lost 356,000 jobs.
Manufacturing continued its long slide, losing 48,000 jobs for the month. Manufacturing has lost jobs nearly every month for the past several years. For the past year, losses in the sector total 310,000 jobs.
Professional services, a sector that had been growing in recent months, declined by 35,000 jobs in March. Over the past year, the sector has still produced 161,000 jobs. Temporary help services fell by over 21,000 for the month, indicating that hiring is likely to be weak for some time. Increases in temporary employment can indicate a growing need for workers.
As has been the case for some time, jobs increased in health care, restaurants, and government, but gains in these sectors were not enough to prevent the overall employment figures from appearing grim. Healthcare added nearly 23,000 jobs in March, and has generated just over 360,000 new jobs over the past year. Restaurant employment increased by 23,000 for the month, and has added nearly 290,000 jobs for the year. Government added 18,000 jobs, and has added 244,000 since March 2007.
The Department of Labor report also indicates that the economic downturn is hitting the Latino community particularly hard. The employment-to-population ratio—a good measure of the overall strength of the labor market—fell the sharpest for Hispanics in March, declining to 63.7 percent from 64.3 percent. In contrast the employment-to-population ration for whites held steady at 63.3 percent. The ratio for African Americans also fell, but by a lesser amount, to 58.2 percent from 58.4 percent.
The job market has been particularly hard on those with less skills—workers with a high school degree or less—a category that includes many immigrants. The employment-to-population ratio fell for the month to 42.3 percent from 43.0 percent for people with less than a high school diploma, and to 59.1 percent from 59.7 for those with a high school degree.
In contrast, the employment-to-population ratio for those with more education held steady or increased: For those with some college it remained about the same, going to 69.3 percent to 69.4 percent, and for those with a bachelor’s degree or more it increased to 77.0 percent from 76.5.
All told, today’s jobs figures paint a bleak picture of a weak economy. There is no way to put a positive face on today’s job figures. The labor market has been in the doldrums for years, with well below average job growth, flat wages, and declining benefits. This has forced families deeper and deeper into record amounts of debt. And just as families are beginning to ponder how they are ever going to repay this debt, the rug is pulled out from under them as jobs become scarcer. The weak labor market is inflicting the greatest harm on those who are the most vulnerable.
Policymakers who have ignored the trouble signs brewing in the labor market for years need to craft an economic recovery plan that addresses the current nosedive in the labor market, but also the long-term weakness that preceded it. The recently enacted economic stimulus plan will help kick-start the economy when checks go out to taxpayers this summer, but it needs to be followed by a reorientation of our longer-term economic policies to make the economy work for real people with real economic problems—not just financial markets dealing with mostly self-inflicted pain.
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300,000 of the construction jobs from the stimulus will go to illegal aliens?
Does this bother you that we have mortgaged our futures to provide jobs for illegals?
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/03/09/Illegal_workers_to_find_stimulus_jobs/UPI-72651236611492/
Is Obama's $600 billion spending plan tacit admission that trickle down works?
Obama plans to spend billions on infrastructure. That’s fine, but how does that work? Obama will spend millions on several construction projects. For example, Obama will might give 0,000,000 to a company to build a bridge. The owners of this company will take that money and pass a portion of it onto its employees to pay for their wages. They will also pass a portion of it onto other companies to purchase products to make the bridge, such as steel, machinery, etc… This will create jobs and spark the economy. From there, those employees will go and spend their checks on various things…clothing, beer, tickets to a movie, etc… which will provide wages for employees in other companies, and the cycle will start again.
Other than the source of the original income (the government instead of private citizens), this is a version of the trickle-down theory.
Obama administration wants unions involved in big government construction jobs?
Won’t unions just drive up construction costs? The rule says all large government funded construction jobs must have union representation, and that even non union employees have to pay union dues and contribute to union pension plans. It just seems like union involvement will just drive up costs. And the we the taxpayers are funding it.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/07/obama-puts-union-strings-on-job-center/?feat=home_headlines
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