employment
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"We need some kind of assurance that there is a long-term plan to support the funding of placements in work, to support young people into employment and to support employers."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission received more than 130,000 reports of job scams and fraudulent employment agencies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Manufacturing was the only sector to record any significant rise in employment for the month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Even the most committed dove would struggle to find anything in the August employment report to justify keeping interest rates unchanged," said Stephen Brown, chief North America economist at Capital Economics.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, unlike a similar ordinance adopted in Boston, San Francisco’s policy applies only to public employment, not to private vendors that do business with the city or county of San Francisco.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
This lack of key inflation and employments reports is sure to complicate the Fed’s decision at its Dec. 9-10 meeting.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025
Landry, who previously had a career in law enforcement, said that police departments in the state are experiencing record-low employments “resulting in increased crime and less public safety.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
"We have the last throw of the dice in order to bring back some part of that industry, if we don't then we have to look for alternative employments for the 820,000 people."
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2023
"That is very unusual. Like many employments that are still unfilled, FAA administrator is an extremely important position," Captain Ross "Rusty" Aimer told Salon last week, before Trump had finally filled the position.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2019
Much time was devoted by him to study of literature and the arts, but the details of his employments, intellectual and otherwise, are impossible to make out.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
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