Posted on 04/29/2017 3:13:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
• IBM, Amazon, SoftBank, and Alibaba all made high-profile pledges to create U.S. jobs
• Progress has been mixed, with Amazon hiring the most so far.
The first few weeks of Donald Trump's presidency were flooded with jobs announcements with a common theme: bringing jobs back to America.
Now, 100 days into the Trump administration, where are those jobs? What positions have been filled and which companies have followed up with real hiring?
While some companies were eager to provide big, tweetable numbers a few months ago, progress has been a little slower. For example:
IBM. Shortly after the election and before Trump's inauguration, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said the company would hire 25,000 "new collar" jobs in the next four years in the US (6,000 of them this year).
The company told CNBC this week that they've hired 120 people in their Columbia, Missouri Client Innovation Center and 200 veterans since the start of the year. To stay on track, IBM will have to fill more than 5,500 new employees in the U.S. in the remaining 8 months of the year.
Amazon. In January, Amazon touted plans to hire 100 thousand "new, full-time, full-benefit jobs" across the nation over the next 18 months....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Somebody cheating on food stamps doesn’t ruin careers and set families back years when one get laid off and replaced by a Pakistani that you had to train.
I tend to disagree. After Katrina I tried to get some food stamp assistance and was laughed out of the building. It was rough.
Trump has already been moving and creating jobs for Americans and taking action to insure H-1B visas stop being misused for cheaper labor from overseas at the cost of Americans being unemployed. Do you pay attention to what he has actually been doing or do you just reference your "wishlist" every day and start puling about how it ain't all done yet?
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