Employment

Pacific 2020 Background Paper: Employment and Labor Markets

To identify challenges to employment growth and identify potential policy interventions for improving labor markets. American Samoa is cited in only a few statistics, but other South Pacific jurisdictions are thoroughly covered.

Pacific 2020: Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

This document assesses the economic status of the Pacific Islands and identifies opportunities for growth and development.

Pacific 2020 Background Paper: Framework for Growth

To summarize the Growth Experience of developing countries over 25 years in order to inform Growth and Development Strategies in the South Pacific.

Presidential Directive Launching BusinessUSA, the Business Assistance Initiative that Complements SelectUSA.

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 28, 2011
Presidential Memorandum -- Making it Easier for America's Small Businesses and America's Exporters to Access Government Services to Help Them Grow and Hire

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Making it Easier for America's Small Businesses and America's Exporters to Access Government Services to Help Them Grow and Hire

American Samoa and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Employment, Earnings, and Status of Key Industries Since Minimum Wage Increases Began

In 2007, the United States enacted a law incrementally raising the minimum wages in American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) until they equal the U.S. minimum wage. American Samoa's minimum wage increased by $.50 three times, and the CNMI's four times before legislation delayed the increases, providing for no increase in American Samoa in 2010 or 2011 and none in the CNMI in 2011. As scheduled, American Samoa's minimum wage will equal the current U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 in 2018, and the CNMI's will reach it in 2016.

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