"You would think the best intervention would be a workforce-development program, or some sort of employment or something.
Convicted of felonies, incarcerated, and then released to confront high barriers to employment, these men — felons are overwhelmingly male and disproportionately black — now account for roughly 13percentt of the adult male population and a significant share of the country's would-be workforce.
In December, however, Dow said that it would be reducing its workforce by about 11%, or 5,000 jobs.
Josh Hardie, the CBI's deputy director general, said many employers would be expanding their workforce, but with trepidation as economic uncertainty remained high.
Flybe said it would be reducing its workforce by 500, despite returning to profit.
Or that Yahoo!, once king of the Web, would be cutting its workforce too.
A G4S spokesman said: "We wanted to recognise the huge contribution made by the military after it became clear that there would be shortfall in workforce delivery.
In fact, more than half, 54%, of the U.S. respondents representing companies whose staffs had been cut in the previous 12 months told us they would be rebuilding their workforce to pre-recession levels within the next two years.
Large-caps Intel and Sun Microsystems traded lower, and Oracle set a new 52-week low, coming off March 9′s late-breaking news from Cisco Systems that the Web networking company would be cutting its workforce by 17% as a result of the softening economy.
No one foresaw how profound the impact of seven million drug felony convictions would be upon the workforce, family stability and structure, and the national and local economies.
The only logical conclusion derived from such philosophy is to assume that optimally a cheaper workforce is good for business, and hence the ideal workforce would be one that costs as little as possible or nothing at all.
