WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Great Recession in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession_in_the...

    The number of jobs ("total non-farm payrolls" which includes both private sector and government jobs) reached a peak of 138.4 million in January 2008, then fell to a trough (bottom) of 129.7 million in February 2010, a decline of nearly 8.8 million jobs or 6.8%. The number of jobs did not regain the January 2008 level until May 2014.

  3. Labor share - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_share

    e. In economics, the wage share or labor share is the part of national income, or the income of a particular economic sector, allocated to wages ( labor ). It is related to the capital or profit share, the part of income going to capital, [1] which is also known as the K – Y ratio. [2] The labor share is a key indicator for the distribution ...

  4. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United...

    The CBPP wrote in January 2013: "[December 2012] is the 34th straight month of private-sector job creation, with payrolls growing by 5.3 million jobs (a pace of 157,000 jobs a month) since February 2010; total nonfarm employment (private plus government jobs) has grown by 4.8 million jobs over the same period, or 141,000 a month.

  5. No-till farming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming

    No-till farming (also known as zero tillage or direct drilling) is an agricultural technique for growing crops or pasture without disturbing the soil through tillage. No-till farming decreases the amount of soil erosion tillage causes in certain soils, especially in sandy and dry soils on sloping terrain. Other possible benefits include an ...

  6. Payroll - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payroll

    A payroll is a list of employees of a company who are entitled to receive compensation as well as other work benefits, as well as the amounts that each should obtain. [1] Along with the amounts that each employee should receive for time worked or tasks performed, payroll can also refer to a company's records of payments that were previously ...

  7. Corporate farming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_farming

    Corporate farming is the practice of large-scale agriculture on farms owned or greatly influenced by large companies. This includes corporate ownership of farms and selling of agricultural products, as well as the roles of these companies in influencing agricultural education, research, and public policy through funding initiatives and lobbying ...

  8. Non-Euclidean geometry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry

    Non-Euclidean geometry is an example of a scientific revolution in the history of science, in which mathematicians and scientists changed the way they viewed their subjects. [24] Some geometers called Lobachevsky the " Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary character of his work.

  9. Nonviolence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence

    e. Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, or the ...