"Limited paid-leave programs have been found to increase work-force participation, raise wages, reduce use of government benefits, increase leave times, and improve children's and mothers' health outcomes — especially for low-wage parents for whom the alternative is often welfare," McCloskey wrote.
As to qualms about jobs erased by the "new new economy," the Fed chief likely soothed many when he declared "If… the growth rate will be picking up in the months ahead and rising above the relevant rate of productivity, then clearly increased work forces will be required to meet the increased growth".
"We call it the three-increase building," said Wu Renbao, 84, the town's revered patriarch, meaning that it will increase Huaxi's acreage (by half), increase its work force (by 3,000) and, hardly least of all, increase its wealth.
I'm hiring now, and I plan to increase the work force 20percentt in 2005.
The foundation plans to increase its work force, and to add some engineering capability.
United Airlines is recalling 375 flight attendants to increase that work force about 2percentt as it adds more international flights and keeps its aircraft flying for more hours.
[C5.] Microsoft Moves to Expand Shrugging off a recession in the technology industry, Microsoft plans to accelerate its investment in research and development and increase its work force.
The company plans to increase that work force of computer scientists and software developers to 400, and to invest $1 billion in the center by 2015.
Another is an expansion of the tax credit for businesses that increase their work force, like the one sponsored by Mr. Hatch and Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat.
He announced that Citigroup, the city's largest private employer, would erect a $200 million office building in Long Island City, Queens, and had promised to increase its work force by 600 over the next two years.
Shrugging off a deep recession in the technology industry that has beset its competitors, Microsoft said today that it planned to accelerate its investment in research and development and increase its work force.
