"And the issue they have, as with all service industries, is that all service industries depend on the leadership of the CEO, and it's not an easy thing to take that out of the equation."
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In service industries, staff really are a company's most important asset.
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But service industries including banking and tourism would also be affected.
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Service industries and Syracuse University are significant providers of jobs now.
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Service industries provide by far the largest share of American jobs.
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The retail and service industries have a reputation for being tough work.
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Those who do find work in service industries are not necessarily happier.
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Service industries such as tourism and restaurants are being hit especially hard.
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Many work on oil rigs, in service industries and as domestic workers.
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But automation is about to come to a wide range of service industries.
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It's no surprise that studies show tipping encourages anti-blackness in service industries.
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Confidence declined in retail and construction, while the service industries were more buoyant.
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They're in service industries like health care, education, retail, hospitality, and local government.
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But the pacts are almost unheard of in fast-food and other service industries.
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TiSA would seek to lower trade barriers for finance, telecommunications and other service industries.
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Primary industries grew 2.2 percent, while growth in service industries slowed to 0.5 percent.
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According to a private-sector report released Wednesday, service industries drove growth in April.
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"We are focusing on service industries such as retail and hospitality," she told CNBC.
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What's more, the growth of service industries has put a premium on self-presentation.
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Primary industries grew 2.2 percent, while growth in service industries slowed to 0.5 percent.
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Supermarkets are one of the few union strongholds in the retail and service industries.
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Across the country, service industries such as taxi and food-delivery companies are increasingly affected.
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The continued decline of manufacturing and the rise of service industries has probably favoured women.
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Mall owners hope to find new tenants from service industries such as restaurants and gyms.
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The service industries will also see a benefit through additional income to hotels, restaurants, etc.
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Beijing ministries have particularly looked at whether to allow greater investment in Chinese service industries.
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In recent months, manufacturing had paltry job gains even as service industries reported steady growth.
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In what will become a recurring theme, several healthcare service industries appear on this list.
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The measure tracks growth in the service industries, including construction, education, wholesale trade and transportation.
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The trend partly reflects an economic shift towards service industries, in which licences are more common.
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Price cutting failed to stem a slide in the PMI for the bloc's dominant service industries.
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But efficiency gains are notoriously harder to come by in service industries than in manufacturing ones.
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But consumer spending and service industries held up well enough that the overall economy avoided recession.
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Critics say the company and others in the retail and service industries should also raise wages.
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Many hourly-wage earners work in the restaurant and service industries, which will experience high layoffs.
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And much of that growth has come in service industries rather than in power-hungry manufacturing.
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From a sector standpoint, service industries added 13,000 workers, with goods-producing companies making up the balance.
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First, use trade agreements to continue creating export opportunities for US service industries, including travel and tourism.
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The leisure and hospitality industry, for example, has the lowest employer retirement costs of the service industries.
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A strong dollar has already driven a wedge between the performance of America's manufacturing and service industries.
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Price-cutting failed to stem a slide in the PMI for the euro zone's dominant service industries.
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Broadly speaking, service industries accounted for 139,0003 of the total, and goods producers were responsible for 44,000.
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The survey reported more widespread hiring plans among non-commodity exporters and companies in the service industries.
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Jobs-rich service industries are still slowing, so it is too early to expect better GDP growth.
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I've spent today watching things get bleaker and bleaker for everyone in the entertainment and service industries.
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The costs of social distancing and shutting down many service industries on the US economy are enormous.
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That's particularly relevant for the United States, where service industries account for the majority of economic activity.
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In another story, she delved into mental health and addiction issues in Northeast Ohio's restaurant and service industries.
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Most of it appeared to be in the tech service industries but there were definitely a few oddballs.
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She also said that the advertising, cosmetics and service industries would "become a little watery" — a rough year.
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Virke's member companies are mostly in service industries, such as retail and tourism, and have some 225,000 employees.
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There's a strong humanitarian case as well, as people employed in service industries like restaurants, bars, gyms, etc.
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Manufacturing, which is especially vulnerable to trade, is slowing across advanced economies even as service industries hold up.
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Employees in customer service industries or front-of-house roles often don't have the option to work remotely.
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Will businesses without paid sick leave, especially in the service industries, allow employees to stay home if ill?
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Professional Services Council is a trade group that represents government contractors in the technology and professional service industries.
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Same with construction and other field service industries — both are massive markets with very little incursion from Silicon Valley.
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Many people who've worked in the retail and food-service industries have horror stories to share about rude customers.
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That revelation was born of discipline hammered into him from part-time jobs in the retail and service industries.
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However, "buoyant business conditions would appear to be leading to increasing cost pressures in all service industries," he said.
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The hospitality, food, and service industries were hit hard, with a dramatic drop in tourism numbers and retail sales.
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Service industries, like computer programming, want to make it easier for Indian programmers to get temporary work visas there.
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Data-localisation rules can hinder cross-border trade as effectively as tariffs on goods, or regulations that protect service industries.
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By 2015, due to its increased revenue, the country had become high income, advancing in service industries and real estate.
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A monthly survey of China's service industries slipped to a 17-month low, helping knock the price of oil lower.
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"This is expected to expand the entry of both countries' companies into service industries, and revitalize mutual investments," he said.
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Startups are beginning to transform manufacturing just as they transformed service industries like taxi-hailing and short-term room lets.
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The poorest are usually ill prepared to flourish in a world where the technology and service industries are increasingly dominant.
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Domestically focused service industries like software, health care and financial services are doing well, lifting incomes among white-collar workers.
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The growth in that trade surplus reflects a broader shift in the U.S economy away from manufacturing toward service industries.
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Many low-wage workers and workers in service industries do not get paid if they take time off when sick.
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In that episode, the overall United States economy kept humming along because consumer spending and service industries were mostly unaffected.
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The majority of the 16 service industries which responded to the survey cited escalating trade tensions as a primary concern.
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Given the vast numbers of American jobs tied to service industries, it would be bad news if that trend continued.
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She has been keeping a close eye on job creation in the goods sector, relative to hiring in service industries.
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So they promised to lower barriers, open their service industries to investment and competition, strengthen patent protection and tighten environmental standards.
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The competitive blow to manufacturers rippled through regional economies, write Messrs Autor, Dorn and Hanson, battering suppliers and local service industries.
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The trend lines look similar for other service industries, including veterinary services and child care — costs have soared in recent decades.
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Retailing, e-commerce and other service industries are growing and absorbing some idled workers but others are struggling to find work.
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Asian shares remained around the flat line following a survey which suggested Chinese service industries enjoyed higher economic activity last month.
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The middle classes in the country's bigger cities, confident urban professionals with jobs in service industries, are indeed still splashing out.
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UWUA represents 50,000 active members employed in the energy, electric, gas, steam, water, generation and related professional, technical and service industries.
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That's because economies like the U.S. are dominated by face-to-face service industries, which are damaged when people stay home.
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Starting year: 2006Headquarters: Cambridge, MassachusettsCompany description: HubSpot offers a variety of software for professionals in the sales, marketing, and service industries.
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Service industries are less volatile than manufacturing, make up a bigger slice of rich-world GDP and, by their nature, trade less.
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The service industries: Although machines might perform the actual services, humans will still be required for the social part of the equation.
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But the fast-growing service industries have imported a more Anglo-Saxon style, exemplified by Amazon, which arrived in Leipzig in 2006.
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I work inside a six-floor building in midtown Manhattan that is home to tech start-ups and professional service industries, alike.
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A lot of other service industries work the same way: Automation treats human labor as a cost to be reduced or eliminated.
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Much of this growth has come from poorly-paid service industries, but Botswana manufactures almost nothing and exports little other than diamonds.
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India's manufacturers and service industries have been struggling to overcome disruptions from the bumpy launch of a national sales tax in July.
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Farmers, manufacturing workers, and service industries from Alabama to Ohio to Wyoming would then be able to share in an economic recovery.
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Service industries have been shut down, though the clothing, construction and call centre sectors are continuing to work after adopting health precautions.
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Like many other service industries, sex work has been devastated by coronavirus, sex workers in Australia, Canada, England, and the U.S say.
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That has been challenging for the entire retail and food service industries, as the US unemployment rate remains at an historic low.
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While taxes have been increased on service industries, promises to introduce a property tax and other fiscal changes have made little headway.
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"That's a big problem," said Wandner, especially since the coronavirus' economic hit seems particularly acute in service industries replete with gig workers.
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But Walmart's new service also highlights, albeit unwittingly, the financial struggles of the low-wage workers in the retail and service industries.
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That would speed up Beijing's policy shift to establish household consumption, domestic investments and service industries as the main drivers of economic growth.
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This was particularly true for those in manufacturing and construction jobs, or nonsupervisory roles in service industries like health care and fast food.
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"There is an enormous amount of hope that reforms will truly bring new industries, which will create jobs and service industries," he said.
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It is happening across the nation's brick-and-mortar workplaces and coursing through service industries, the fastest-growing segment of the labor market.
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Its service industries — a growing part of its economic base — thrive off the underserved rural towns in the western half of the state.
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The outcome of the talks sets a benchmark for negotiations for other workers in Norway, including those in service industries and the public sector.
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He also noted that 2.5 percent real wage growth could put further pressure on prices, particularly in service industries that have little foreign competition.
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They took up positions in the service industries of the south, the factories and foundries of the Midlands and the mills of Northern England.
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Short workweeks have been a source of frustration for many lower-income workers in service industries such as retail, fast food restaurants, and hotels.
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Much of China's slowdown has been self-imposed as regulators clamped down on a building boom and nurtured retailing, tourism and other service industries.
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We've become increasingly dependent over the years on migrant labor, legal and illegal, to help run our farms, ranches, processing plants and service industries.
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While South Africa's economy stagnated during the Zuma years, Cape Town's embrace of creative and service industries has meant it is booming in comparison.
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The European Commission's economic-sentiment index, based on surveys of service industries, manufacturers, builders and consumers, is as high as it has been since 2011.
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Many of those who used to work in factories, such as Mr Li in Hangzhou, are ill-equipped to find new jobs in service industries.
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Longmay has said it would cut 2100,21 jobs, and local media reports say it has already relocated 26.4640,500 workers to agriculture, timber and public service industries.
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The rate of involuntary part-time workers in the retail and service industries is well above that in the health care, construction, manufacturing and transportation sectors.
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The outcome of the talks will set a benchmark for the upcoming negotiations for all other workers, including those in service industries and the public sector.
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In fact, many richer Americans who run or invest in service industries long enjoyed the benefits that robust legal and illegal immigration brought to their businesses.
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May's overall job growth disappointed, but there were pockets of strength with solid hiring in the health care, computer and digital design, and food service industries.
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The Institute for Supply Management's gauge on U.S. service industries, which hit a 12-1/2-year high last month, also supported the dollar on Monday.
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Most did not complete high school and are ill-equipped to retrain for jobs in service industries, which the Chinese government hopes will replace manufacturing ones.
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At the same time, Japan's ageing population has meant that many sectors, particularly service industries, are grappling with a labor shortage that is pushing up wages.
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Services A big aim of the Pacific pact is enhancing opportunities for service industries, which account for most of the private jobs in the American economy.
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The government wants to shift growth from manufacturing to service industries, but many new jobs at restaurants, hotels and stores are low-paying or part-time.
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In August, surveys of purchasing managers by the Institute for Supply Management found that manufacturers were contracting, while service industries were expanding at a healthy pace.
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Demand for vegetables is declining because people don't have the money to pay for them, for example, and some service industries are reporting steep job losses.
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The Institute for Supply Management's gauge on U.S. service industries, which hit a 12-1/3.73-year high last month, also supported the dollar on Monday.
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The nation's vast array of service industries, which are more labor-intensive, are actually doing far better, said Laura Rosner, senior United States economist at BNP Paribas.
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Isabel Sawhill, of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, offers one explanation: low-skilled job openings have been concentrated in service industries that do not attract men.
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While similarly depressed cities have survived by developing high-tech or service industries, Utica is being revived by investing in human capital, albeit sourced via extraordinary circumstances.
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If the United States economy is going to escape recession, it will be because of the strength of domestic service industries, and they held up reasonably well.
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Already, the Fed's contacts at service industries in the Dallas Federal Reserve district, home to many businesses that trade with both China and Mexico, were reporting concerns.
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Manufacturing has swooned in the face of the trade war; but service industries have held up, at least so far, and with them the economy as a whole.
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Service industries, especially, are so difficult to fully automate because being able to listen to somebody's voice and register that person's silent anger is such a human capacity.
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While promoting US manufacturing is important, government trade negotiators should also consider the impact of trade agreements on service industries, which employ roughly 80% of the American workforce.
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At the same time, the labor movement — like the American economy as a whole — is increasingly composed of workers in service industries that aren't especially exposed to trade.
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"Minority bodies are going to be hit particularly hard because they often work in service industries, which increases risk for social isolation and loneliness and coronavirus," says Taylor.
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"Many employers - especially in the retail and service industries - have adopted 'just in time' scheduling practices that use algorithms to assign workers hours in real time," Warren wrote.
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A no-deal Brexit would leave Britain's trading relationship with the EU subject to World Trade Organisation rules, which do not guarantee market access for service industries like insurance.
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Service industries will not have passports, or rights through equivalence, to operate in the EU. If there is no deal, a free-trade bonanza will be a pipe-dream.
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Thursday's report from the US International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency, found that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) would boost the manufacturing, agriculture and service industries.
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That is how much this trade and investment program has become part of the Chinese economy, by offering outlets for a broad range of China's manufacturing and service industries.
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Food and wine is one of the city's most vibrant service industries but also one of the most exposed to the process of leaving the EU, known as Brexit.
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Because a potential pandemic is at the heart of the downturn, service industries are likely to get hit harder than construction, which typically bears the brunt of a recession.
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The available evidence, Autor said, suggests that this trend has continued "very rapidly" over the last decade, increasing the share of American workers who work in the service industries.
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The travel and food service industries have essentially collapsed, with businesses barring their employees from taking flights and cities like Los Angeles and New York closing restaurants and bars.
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Its 6 million illegal workers and millions more immigrants provide the backbone of America's agricultural and service industries, from the kitchens of New York City to hotel rooms in Chicago.
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Accommodation and food service industries have the highest number of reported claims, and 27% of flight attendants said they had been sexually harassed while on duty in a 2014 survey.
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The European Commission's economic-sentiment index, based on surveys of service industries, manufacturers, builders and consumers in the euro zone, rose to its highest level for a decade in April.
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As in much of the developing world, they are becoming a potent political force, with former agricultural laborers moving to sprawling cities for jobs in manufacturing and in service industries.
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The widely admired German model, which places about 90 percent of its graduates in career-path jobs, including in service industries, has students entering programs around the age of 85033.
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In the first month alone after the currency ban, micro and small-scale service industries cut staff by 21 percent, the All India Manufacturers' Organization said, based on a survey.
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At first, a lot of that growth came from sectors that don't produce a ton of emissions—think service industries—so the economy's upturn wasn't hurting our reduction in carbon emissions.
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Source: CareerBuilder Industrial America may be struggling with low-cost global competition, but industrial engineers who improve production and processes in manufacturing and service industries have ample opportunities in the marketplace.
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The economy shrank 0.1 percent in December from November, the third decline in four months, as a 0.7 percent fall in goods industries offset a 0.2 percent gain in service industries.
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And then there is the question of mismeasurement: some activities, such as free internet-search engines, may not show up in GDP statistics; productivity in service industries is hard to measure.
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Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance to the processed food, restaurant and food service industries, calling for reduced sodium in our food usually consumed as salt.
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Nationwide, only 45 percent of workers in the hotel and food service industries get paid sick days, compared with 97 percent in the financial industry, according to the latest federal data.
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The figure fell short of economists' expectations, but some of the most impressive job gains in the past year were in blue-collar and service industries that pay a decent salary.
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Several ad agencies told Business Insider that they and their clients stood to lose thousands of dollars but that the local creative and service industries would take a far bigger hit.
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In an email, Booth wrote me: Service industries are where the growth strategies of organized labor have been mostly focused for 40 years, and where most of the growth has occurred.
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The report, which stressed the need for Panama to remain a magnet for banking and other service industries, calls for "transparency in identifying the final beneficiary of legal and financial instrument".
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They have persisted with their efforts, even though their campaign has damaged service industries in Dongguan (also sometimes called "sin city" in China's English-language press) that depended on the sex trade.
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After crunching the numbers, the model concluded that occupations accounting for 47% of current American jobs (including those in office administration, sales and various service industries) fell into the "high risk" category.
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To his credit, Jokowi realises that Indonesia cannot lift its long-term growth rate if the economy remains reliant on extractive industries; it needs a broader range of manufacturing and service industries.
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One possibility is a series of major new inventions — perhaps flying cars, space tourism, holodecks, or nanorobots that cure cancer — big enough to entice consumer dollars away from low-productivity service industries.
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"The Microsoft Surface platform has expanded what tablets can do, and it sets the bar for customer satisfaction," J.D. Power's vice president of service industries, Jeff Conklin, said in Thursday's news release.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said at a symposium last Thursday that additional effort is needed to support advanced manufacturing and the emerging service industries to unleash the potential of the Chinese market.
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Instead, there has been an explosion of low-wage jobs in manufacturing as well as service industries, especially for workers without a college degree, who still constitute a majority of the labor force.
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"Brazil has suddenly dumped the North Sea model of Norway and Britain and adopted the OPEC model of Venezuela, Nigeria and Angola which have no local service industries," said ABIMAQ president Jose Velloso.
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While there has been concern over the effect of the coronavirus on hourly workers in the food and service industries, licensed medical workers such as dental hygienists could be at risk as well.
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The Australian and Canadian dollars were the big movers in otherwise quiet FX markets, with the U.S. dollar holding near a two-week high after Tuesday's strong service industries and new home sales data.
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"In the US, the new trade pact will support high-paying manufacturing jobs and promote greater access for American exports across the range of sectors including our farming, manufacturing and service industries," Trump said.
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But for that great majority of people who work in service industries, it might be reassuring if the president himself acknowledged more readily that there's more to a modern economy than making physical stuff.
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In the retail, hospitality, and food service industries, employees often work long and unpredictable hours—increasingly scheduled by algorithms that analyze seasonal sales patterns, customer trends, and even the weather to determine their shifts.
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On the other hand, if you work in retail, service industries, or other jobs where you're on your feet all day, then your money might be better spent on a comfortable pair of shoes.
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As a specialist in data driven quality improvement, I was taught early on that most professional service industries perform at an error rate of about one defect per every thousand opportunities at making a defect.
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And if Mr. Trump follows through on his promises to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, it would undermine the economic model of companies that rely on immigrants, including those in the agriculture and service industries.
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The December numbers give investors a look at key service industries that have been the drivers of the American economy in recent months as manufacturing activity has slowed due to the U.S.-China trade war.
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There certainly are difficulties -- if schools are suspended, parents working from home may also need to care for their children, and working remotely isn't practical for some in customer service industries of front-of-house roles.
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Foreign exchange markets were mostly quiet elsewhere, with the U.S. dollar holding near a two-week high after Tuesday's strong service industries and new home sales data, and the euro pausing before Thursday's European Central Bank meeting.
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The western world has suffered from no economic growth because of low productivity within service industries, and digitalization will allow to improve productivity significantly, and that creates a new opportunity to also share that among the citizens.
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Start-ups getting their feet wet in the hospitality, travel, delivery and other service industries can learn a lot about how to improve their operations and build a strong customer base from the early days of Uber.
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" As Kristine McKenna reported in a 2003 article in L.A. Weekly, Mr. Chrismas had been sued more than 55 times under nine different business names — "by artists, dealers, collectors, private investors, service industries, landlords and former friends.
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Abbi and Ilana work a string of jobs in the online and service industries, the sort of work that reminds you the city is filled with people with more disposable income than you have, disposing it everywhere.
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For Syrian refugees in Jordan, it has only been in the last year that there has been an opportunity to find legal employment — and only then in a limited number of sectors, working in construction or service industries.
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That is because face-to-face service industries — the kind of businesses that go into a tailspin when fearful people withdraw from one another — tend to dominate economies in high-income countries more than they do in China.
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Many low-wage jobs in retail and service industries fail to provide sick paid leave (only 27 percent of people whose wages are below the bottom 10 percent have sick paid leave, according to the Economic Policy Institute).
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"Our industry is falling off a cliff," said D. Taylor, president of the UNITE HERE, a union that represents about 300,000 members in the hotel, gaming, food, transport and other service industries in the United States and Canada.
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"Our industry is falling off a cliff," said D. Taylor, president of the UNITE HERE, a union that represents about 300,000 members in the hotel, gaming, food, transport and other service industries in the United States and Canada.
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The Institute for Supply Management will release its economic index for non-manufacturing businesses on Tuesday, giving the market a look at key service industries that have been the drivers of the United States economy in recent months.
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Only 8.4 percent of all jobs were in manufacturing in December, continuing a long downward trend since World War II. The employment numbers are also consistent with the other Institute of Supply Management survey, focused on service industries.
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This process is currently under way (China's PM Li Keqiang says it's so painful that it feels like "slashing your own wrists") in parallel with a rapidly changing composition of China's economic growth toward private consumption and service industries.
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It is good at the sort of service industries that demand flexible labour markets, urban clusters, worldly universities and fast-moving capital: think not just the City of London but successful provincial centres like Swindon, Milton Keynes and Manchester.
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The issue is taking on new urgency as concern grows over low-wage workers least likely to have access to paid time off – like those in the restaurant or customer service industries – potentially spreading the coronavirus in their communities.
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Advocates of the program inside and outside the administration say refugees are a major benefit to the United States, paying more in taxes than they consume in public benefits, and filling jobs in service industries that others will not.
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Depending on the season, up to 60,000 Palestinians without work permits sneak across the barrier to work in construction, agriculture or service industries in Israel, either through gaps in the route or by utilizing the services of local smugglers.
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Internet access is patchy and slow; roads and classrooms can be surprisingly shabby; a tangle of red tape restricts service industries; and under Mrs Merkel the retirement age has fallen for some and will soon be lower than in France.
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After decades of lobbying and campaign contributions to customize U.S. trade pacts to their benefit, perhaps the Chamber, Coalition of Service Industries, PhRMA and other business groups prefer no NAFTA to a new trade agreement design eliminating their special protections.
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"The potential for strengthening our economy through tax reform would be jeopardized by any proposal that imposes an advertising tax on our nation's manufacturing, retail and service industries," 124 members of the House said in a recent letter to congressional leaders.
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Jean Comaroff, a Harvard professor of anthropology and African Studies, said despite "valiant efforts" from city authorities and activists in recent years, Cape Town itself still offers little room for its slum residents beyond "servitude" - work as domestics or in the service industries.
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Given that the Trump administration is planning trade actions against China for some of its companies' theft of American firms' intellectual property, it's clear that the importance of service industries to the United States economy is known to some of the key negotiators.
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In short, the statement that America would somehow transform into a homogenized sea of tacos de lengua and birria reflects not only a misunderstanding of the restaurant and service industries, but also of the inherent benefits and values of a multicultural society.
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Countries that gave trading concessions to the huge European Union market of more than 500 million people may not be so generous in their dealings with Britain alone, a country of some 65 million people that is highly dependent on its service industries.
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That same economy has yielded uneven results in Altoona, a city of about 45,20163 where the low unemployment rate of 4.2 percent masks some uglier economic facts: Most of the new jobs are in lower-paying service industries, with scaled-down benefits.
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Paid sick leave in particular is taking on new urgency as concern grows over low-wage workers least likely to have access to paid time off — like those in the restaurant or customer service industries — potentially spreading the coronavirus in their communities.
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With tariffs hobbling manufacturing, the job market this year has underscored a bifurcation in the economy: Service industries — finance, engineering, health care and the like — have been hiring at a solid pace, while manufacturers, miners and builders have been posting weak numbers.
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While the door for India to join the agreement remains open, it may find it more difficult to get the deal it wants, which includes retaining some tariffs on imports into India and getting better access to service industries in other RCEP countries.
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In her speech, May promised that businesses investing in Britain would get the lowest rate of corporation tax among the G20 group of leading economies, with access to service industries and a financial centre in London "that are the envy of the world".
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If people are left with the impression that Google's legal but unethical tax dodging — which is widespread across both tech companies and service industries — has been reined in, then the passionate indignation that's led to these measures in the first place could peter out prematurely.
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The Australian and Canadian dollars were the big movers in otherwise quiet FX markets, with the U.S. dollar holding near a two-week high after Tuesday's strong service industries and new home sales data, and the euro pausing before Thursday's European Central Bank meeting.
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"In the service industries, one of the axioms is to manage people's expectations and always provide service at a level higher than expectation," even if that means overstating expected wait times, said Richard Larson, a professor at M.I.T.'s Institute for Data, Systems and Society.
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On The Fix and Rehab Reviews, there's a note that the phone number routes you to Service Industries, a "network of commonly owned rehabilitation service providers," but it doesn't say which rehabs are in the network, or that Taite owns both the publishers and the providers.
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Without the same kind of governmental guarantee offered by other countries, though, average workers—particularly those in service industries and other fields where employees are widely regarded as replaceable—are stuck on the equivalent of an accelerating treadmill, forced to labor desperately just to avoid disaster.
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In service industries that are heavily dependent on their people — including tech and venture — and those that sell products to a broad population, having diversity in the organization and effectively taking advantage of it are not only critical to success, but may ultimately be critical to survival.
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A growing concern is that those who work in low-wage service industries, particularly bars and restaurants, won't be able to take on enough shifts, or may even get laid off, as people practice social distancing and avoid going out to eat and drink in crowded areas.
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President Donald Trump's top aides are racing to design a wide-ranging government rescue of major sectors of the economy — such as airlines, hospitality and other service industries — amid a collapsing stock market and cascading shutdowns of major sports events, Broadway shows, museums and amusement parks.
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"Today, I am directing the labor department to put an end to the tip credit in the industries with the highest risk of wage theft to help restore fairness for workers, many of whom are critical to the service industries that keep our economy moving forward," he added.
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He notes that PPEists (like David Cameron, Mrs May's predecessor, and indeed Lord Willetts) tend to concentrate on Britain's sectoral strengths—its booming service industries, its great universities, the City—whose success might trickle down to poorer areas, or into whose orbit residents of poorer areas might be persuaded to move.
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The cards are prevalent in the retail and service industries — Walmart and McDonald's are among the large companies that use them — and card issuers say they can be beneficial for employees who lack bank accounts by giving them a safer, more secure way to store their accrued wages and spend them.
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Europe can be an engine of global growth again if we open its digital, information technology and service industries to cross-Continental competition, unite the union's brightest scientific and academic minds to create the world's largest research hub, and conclude a better, more transparent trade deal with the United States.
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Which brings us to the latest "shock'": Politico's "scoop," based on a leaked Commission document, that the EU will only offer the UK a Canada-type trade deal -- which would leave Britain outside the single market and would hit financial and other service industries that are so crucial to Britain's economy.
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The movie's focus on Peter's developer job and on Joanna's (Jennifer Aniston) waitress job at the fictional TGIFridays-esque Chotchkie's in hindsight seemed to foreshadow tech and the service industries as the jobs experiencing strong growth in an economy marked by its deep divide between the 1 percent and everyone else.
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Problem is, many of the jobs created since the economy started recovering from recession were in service industries, located primarily in large metropolitan areas — not in small towns and rural areas where the factories that once provided steady good jobs were either shuttered or were retooled to replace workers with machines.
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"The fact that we've taken a little bit of pause as we've worked to really flesh out that arrangement has been no bad thing because Belt and Road has really evolved," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the summit, adding that the infrastructure program was changing to involve sectors such as service industries.
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Service industries like the financial sector have over 28503,22019 jobs, and the film industry has close to 14,000 jobs directly supported by trade with the U.K. Manufacturing industries like aircraft and aircraft parts manufacturing have close to 12,000 jobs tied to the U.K. There are also about 5,000 jobs in farming, fishing and mining.
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According to the Center for Migration Studies, a think tank in New York affiliated with a Catholic group, the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, 88 percent of Salvadorans participate in the labor force (the construction and food service industries are their biggest employers), compared with 63 percent of Americans as a whole.
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According to the research, minority workers in retail and the food service industries are also more likely to be considered "involuntary part-time workers" — that is, workers who want to work full-time but are forced to work part-time, either because their hours were cut back or they could not find a full-time job.
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Migrants coming more recently from Central America, many of them also looking for better jobs and opportunities for their families, and often fleeing violence in their home countries, haven't traditionally entered the crop-farm workforce in enough numbers to compensate for the loss of those Mexican workers—they've instead found jobs at meatpacking plants and in the service industries.
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Given the fact that nearly two-thirds of Egyptians do not own bank accounts, large segments of the population, particularly those who work in cash-based service industries or small businesses, continue to rely on this type of economic solution in order to avoid the high interest rates and the paperwork associated with formal banking institutions.
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"Face-to-face service industries — the kind of businesses that go into a tailspin when fearful people withdraw from one another — tend to dominate economies in high-income countries more than they do in China," wrote Austan Goolsbee, the former chief White House economic adviser to former President Obama, in a New York Times op-ed.
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And yet for all its success in drawing and nurturing firms on the technological frontier, Phoenix cannot escape the uncomfortable pattern taking shape across the American economy: Despite all its shiny new high-tech businesses, the vast majority of new jobs are in workaday service industries, like health care, hospitality, retail and building services, where pay is mediocre.
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Arthur Lupia, a political scientist at the University of Michigan who is an expert in elections and party politics, wrote in an email that many voters in 2016 were worried about the rate of changes taking place in the racial and ethnic composition of their communities and in the continuing shift from manufacturing to service industries: Republican strategists seem to understand the consequences of these changes.
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British forecaster Oxford Economics, in a recent note, said it "will not be easy for the U.S. to identify $200 billion worth of Chinese imports that it can levy tariffs on without hurting U.S. companies and/or consumers, given the strong involvement of U.S. companies in a large share of China's exports to the U.S." Gao said China and the U.S. were due to negotiate on issues around the manufacturing and service industries in the near future.
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As Catherine Kim has written for Vox, there are now even more concerns about cutting programs like SNAP amid fears the coronavirus pandemic will put additional strain on the social safety net: A growing concern is that those who work in low-wage service industries, particularly bars and restaurants, won't be able to take on enough shifts, or may even get laid off, as people practice social distancing and avoid going out to eat and drink in crowded areas.
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