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WHAT'S NEXT?: AI will replace 16% of jobs over the next decade. A billion people will enter the job market over the next ten years.

[New] The American Wind Energy Association projects that the US wind industry could lose 35,000 jobs and $35bn in investment.
[New] Governments need to find hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of euros to pay idled workers, maintain overworked health care systems, and kindle what they hope will be a recovery in the second half of the year.
[New] With the right policies and investments, Canada's visitor economy has the potential to generate up to $25 billion in tourism export growth and upwards of 180,000 new jobs by 2030.
[New] Biomethane could deliver 30% of the UK's 2030 carbon budget in hardest to decarbonise sectors, provide green heat to 6.4 million homes and create 30,000 jobs by 2030.
[New] The US Department of Labours' Bureau of Labour Statistics anticipates nursing to be among the top healthcare professions seeing job growth with the workforce growing as much as 12% by 2028.
[New] Emergency grants totaling $1 billion will be provided to US states in 2020 for activities related to processing and paying unemployment insurance benefits, extending protections to furloughed workers.
[New] An estimated 120 million workers worldwide will need to be retrained as a result of AI and automation within the next three years.
UKspace has published a new report called the Stratospheric Green Growth Report which sets out how the space sector holds the key to 15,000 green jobs being created in the UK by 2030.
The offshore wind industry will invest between $ 28-$ 57 billion in the U.S. economy and support 45,000-83,000 jobs by 2030, depending on installation levels and supply chain growth.
As Trump has increasingly talked about reopening businesses and putting Americans back to work, the World Health Organization warned earlier Tuesday that the U.S. could become a new hub of the coronavirus outbreak.
An enhanced digital job market has the potential to create 1.3m additional jobs in the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] by 2025, including 700,000 in Saudi Arabia alone.
Germany's center-left coalition agreed to increase public investments by 12.4 billion euros by 2024 and to make it easier for companies to claim subsidies to support workers on reduced working hours to counter the effects of the coronavirus epidemic.
The World Health Organization estimates overall demand for healthcare workers to rise to 18.2 million across Europe by 2030 and, as an example, states that the current supply of 8.6 million nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants across Europe will not meet current or projected future need.
The battery industry currently represents over 30,000 jobs in Europe, and the expected growth in demand will ensure jobs and important opportunities in the coming years.
Workers around the world could lose $3.4 trillion in income by the end of this year.
The travel industry will be hit harder than any other sector, resulting in the loss of 4.6 million travel-related American jobs this year.
By 2021, artificial intelligence augmentation will create US $ 2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally.
3.1 million jobs in the UK are linked to our trade with Europe and that a further 790,000 could be created by 2030 through opening up European markets in tourism.
As coronavirus spreads and workers around the world are at risk of losing their jobs, reverse taxation is a good option.
In the high scenario, the U.S. offshore wind industry is estimated to support nearly 45,000 jobs by 2025 and 83,000 jobs by 2030.
Jobs, economic output, and economic value add resulting from the development and operation of offshore wind projects on the East Coast of the U.S. through 2030.

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Last updated: 05 April 2020