How many of those 6,800 veterans would have landed new jobs if they didn’t participate in the program? How much economic activity would have been generated if the $386 million was left in the private sector? Suffice to say, the answers to those questions would show more jobs and more ...
Government jobs do not create wealth – they consume wealth and redistribute it because it is taxpayers who pay for all of it. The Hoover Institutionreportedin August: Between January 2022 and June 2024, employment in US private businesses increased by about 7.32 million jobs. Of these 7.32 mil...
When I built HiddenLevers, I made apointed decision to bootstrap– so we had no room to waste capital. We began hiring developers on a half-time basis, while letting them retain their full-time jobs (prior to HL I did side contracts as a developer for years, so this was a natural ...
Speaking of increased burden, according to the Legislative Analysts Office, “Since its post-pandemic peak in September 2022, California’s private sector has lost a net 154,000 jobs (1.2 percent) while the public sector has gained 361,000 jobs (7 percent). ...
We began hiring developers on a half-time basis, while letting them retain their full-time jobs (prior to HL I did side contracts as a developer for years, so this was a natural step for me). This turned into a huge win-win: we got access to senior developers with capacity, and ...
One way to look at this is each of those 50 jobs is costing $3.6 million a year! There are also claims these wind mills will provide cleaner, healthier air. The Maryland Public Service Commission hired a consultant that carefully considered the net regional impact, and found no air quality...
If you go on USAJobs right now and look through all the federal jobs, there are not enough product manager jobs. And if you look at all the people across the government, how many product managers should we have? There are not as many as you would expect given the number of progr...
The problem with this mindset is that it has resulted in much public policy being passed on the basis of an idea that’s opposite of how and by whom jobs are really created. Rather, the real motivation that causes job creation comes not from those doing the hiring, but those doing the ...
Finally, lest anyone think their income is not, and will never be, high enough for tax complexity to affect them, remember that employers have to file corporate tax returns, so these costs reduce the number of jobs they can create. It is logical to conclude that an unemployed person with ...
Walsingham: As almost every teacher will tell you, teaching is one of the few jobs that cannot be evaluated by any objective standard. This applies to tests of new applicants as well as evaluations of practicing teachers. Maybe with a big pay increase more of the applicants will be of highe...