#job-creation

Jonathan’s Speech At Handover Note Presentation

Here’s the president’s full speech at the handover note presentation yesterday

I welcome you all to this occasion of the formal presentation of the Hand-over notes of my Administration to the in-coming Administration of the President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.

This event and tomorrow’s inauguration of a new administration are truly historic as it is the first time in the history of…

‘No leader in the history of Nigeria has pushed the cause of womanhood like Jonathan’- Women in Clergy

  The reelection bid of President Goodluck Jonathan received a major boost Wednesday, as a group of female clergy, Women in Clergy, threw their weight behind his aspiration by endorsing him for a second term in his office.

The decision of the group, comprising female pastors and other Christian women, was disclosed by its President, Prophetess Nonie Roberson in a statement issued in Abuja.

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Immigration Job Scam: What I Would Do If I Am The President

Consequent to our critical criticism of the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, some have asked what people like us would do different if we were the President. This specifically in relation to our rejection of the insult to the Martyrs of March 15th, “unemployment day,” who the government in our view further debased the memories of and added pepper to the injuries of their families by…

Political promises aside, it will take at least 20 years for Greece to recreate the one million jobs lost during an economic crisis that saw the rate soar to a record 28 percent in a four-year period, the Labor Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Labor (INE/GSEE) said in its monthly report.

While Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he’s creating a “success story,” and will turn around the battered economy this year, and has promised to create jobs, the analysts said otherwise, at least in terms of getting people back to work.

Stephanie Cutter: Get the facts on Mitt Romney, Big Oil, and the Koch Brothers (by BarackObamadotcom)

From the Washington Post:

Some of the country’s best-known multi­national corporations closely guard a number they don’t want anyone to know: the breakdown between their jobs here and abroad.

So secretive are these companies that they hand the figure over to government statisticians on the condition that officials will release only an aggregate number. The latest data show that multinationals cut 2.9 million jobs in the United States and added 2.4 million overseas between 2000 and 2009.

 Some of the same companies that do not report their jobs breakdown, including Apple and Pfizer, are pushing lawmakers to cut their tax bills in the name of job creation in the United States.

But experts say that without details on which companies are contributing to job growth and which are not, policymakers risk flying blind as they try to jump-start the hiring of American workers.

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