13 ordspråk av Michael Walden
Michael Walden
A sub-5 percent rate is an important signal to the rest of the country that the North Carolina job market is strong despite the significant restructuring occurring.
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Go for your dreams, forget the drugs, stay in school, get your education and don't let anyone pull you down.
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I think it can go down more and I think '06 will be a good year. The region is still considered one of the hot regions.
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It's certainly a positive number. This has been a fairly decent year for the Triangle.
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My whole belief is if we can get into the schools and share a powerful message. A young person can make a decision to go for this dreams instead of drugs.
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Right now, the sales tax is imposed only on goods, and not services. At the retail level, people are starting to spend more on services than on goods.
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See the drug dealers are recruiting everyday so we have to recruit everyday about their dreams.
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So I'm not sure I believe the big gains, and there's no way we'll create 27,000 net new jobs every month. It is a great start to the year, but the pace of improvement likely won't be sustained.
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So this is a good report for Durham County, a strong report.
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There are probably some seasonal-adjustment issues creating the big drop in unemployment and the big gain in employment between December and January.
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These have been fast-growing sectors, and are expected to continue to be. They also pay average- to above-average salaries. But certainly, we will always have underemployed folks in a rapidly changing economy. I just don't know how many.
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We have all the ingredients for a strong biotech industry here with the agriculture, pharmaceuticals and educational base.
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We're one of the leading growth areas of the country -- we should see the residential [building] industry expand this year.
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