Sentence examples for under the workforce from inspiring English sources

The centers, created under the Workforce Investment Act, are intended to function as hubs where job referrals, counseling, training and other services exist in a single place and are offered to any adult, employed or not.

The main comparable program in the United States, under the Workforce Investment Act, has been training fewer than 250,000 a year, although President Obama's stimulus program provides funding that could double the number of American workers in training programs.

At the peak in 2000, the federal government was spending more than $2.1 billion a year in today's dollars for training programs aimed at dislocated workers under the Workforce Investment Act.

The general dislocated worker program paid for under the Workforce Investment Act would be combined with the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which provides training and other benefits to workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition.

Some students, for the most part those who have been unemployed, can obtain federal aid for programs under the Workforce Investment Act, but many fail to, partly because there is not enough money.

Ms. Shea's comments followed her testimony at a City Council committee hearing, where the mayor and Jason A. Turner, the H.R.A. administrator, came under withering criticism for the city's belated efforts to qualify for the money under the Workforce Investment Act, the jobs program signed into law by President Clinton in August 1998.

Just under half the workforce is female, and 70% of married women work, even mothers, although the work rate of single mothers is lower; 40% of marriages break down; more women will become widows or single and have to keep themselves; 50% of divorces are of marriages that lasted nine years or less.

Commercial radio has been slow to tackle under-representation in the workforce, which the BBC's Lorna Clarke reckons affects portrayal on air.

She added that the Government would push ahead with some Equality Act measures, including allowing employers to choose a candidate from a group that is under-represented in the workforce, where there are two applicants of equal merit.

Tan Min Lan, who co-wrote the report at UBS, said: "Despite the evidence linking gender diversity to significant gains in economic growth and company profitability, women are still largely under-represented in the workforce worldwide and continue to face daunting obstacles in corporate environments".

And the ratio of women to men in low-quality jobs in Arab countries remains the highest in the world, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).Partly because of women's under-representation in the workforce, youth unemployment in Arab countries is double the global average.