Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Friday, 30 June 2017

Expensive cities will eat themselves...

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Here's a chunk from a review of the US cities creating the most high-wage jobs - looking at at "which metropolitan areas are gaini...

I know it sounds good but will it work? Thoughts on big rises to minimum wages.

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Be careful what you wish for - or so they say : The study, commissioned by the city government of Seattle and published by the National Bur...
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Wednesday, 7 September 2016

A story of jobs (and why immigration is important)

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We went to Harrogate yesterday afternoon. The sun was shining, it's a nice drive and we like the town. We'd nothing planned beyond ...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016

Banking, tobacco and textiles - why no outcry when those jobs went?

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**** I was in Bingley this morning to catch a train. Nothing unusual here but it got me to thinking about steel and jobs and such. Mostly ...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015

So cut the basic rate of income tax?

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**** Tax cuts stimulate employment best when they benefit the lowest paid most. Or rather as is pointed out here , the bottom 90% of taxpa...
Saturday, 18 April 2015

So let's not talk about the 'jobs miracle', let's talk about welfare instead!

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**** The latest figures for employment, unemployment and jobs came out yesterday and it's fair to say that they are, without question,...
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Sunday, 9 November 2014

Policies that work - the benefits cap...

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**** We were promised destitution and other horrors but ... Between April 2013 and August 2014, 51,200 households had their housing be...
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014

...you're never too old (unless you want a new career).

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How some employers see the 55-year old job applicant James Delingpole has been indulging in some middle-aged angst : ...I wanted t...
Monday, 5 May 2014

Bratislava, or why people would rather do low paid jobs in the UK

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Bratislava Castle and Cathedral Church from the Danube Chances are that you've not been to Bratislava. I mean why would you unless y...
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Sunday, 31 March 2013

Good jobs and bad jobs...

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**** We're familiar with the 'burger flipper' argument. Jobs at places like McDonalds of KFC are 'bad' jobs - low skil...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Manufacturing - no longer the place for cheap labour...

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**** And this is a good thing because cheap labour isn't just cheap it's dirty, unsafe and unpleasant - replacing the drudge with...
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Friday, 28 December 2012

I'm not so sure Krugman is right here...

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Not about the end of growth but about robots - mechanisation, if you will : Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also re...
Monday, 29 October 2012

A thought on manufacturing...

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**** I visited a manufacturer the other day. Part of a multi-national business in the electronics industry. Big plant in Chadderton employ...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

More livelihoods that plain packs will destroy...

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**** Corner shops are going to close and people who work in corner shops are going to lose their jobs if the nannying fussbuckets get the...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

It's for the kids...

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**** “ This is not about curbing the freedoms of existing adult smokers; it’s about giving kids one less reason to start smoking in the ...
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Monday, 23 July 2012

The police, the unions, business and the public think it daft. Can we ditch the idea of plain packs for fags now?

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It seems that everyone bar the paid lackeys of The Churchof Public Health is against the idea of plain packaging for cigarettes. Th...
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Friday, 15 June 2012

More on plain packaging and the threat to jobs in Bradford

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**** As Bradford is stunned by the loss of nearly 500 jobs following Thomas Cook's decision to close their office in the City, the nan...
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Friday, 27 April 2012

An interesting little jobs statistic...

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**** Back in June 2008 - before the age of austerity, before the cuts, before all those civil servants were cast on the scrap heap, public...
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Saturday, 14 April 2012

Plain packaging for tobacco will mean hundreds of job losses in Bradford

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**** The packaging industry is important to Bradford and much of it is geared to supply the tobacco industry. Introducing plain packaging ...
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Friday, 30 March 2012

Not what anyone expected - thoughts on Bradford, Galloway and what might be done

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I guess it had to happen one day. Not that we ever thought yesterday was that day. Nor indeed, that George Galloway would be the man to do ...
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