She said 10 qualified home sales are pending, and data provided by the city housing officials showed 72 area families have qualified for the program and are shopping.

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Leblanc and the BTMM think one way of opening up greater Montreal to potential economic spinoffs from the Plan Nord project is to build a strong networking connection between contractors, suppliers and qualified labor from the area.

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In fact, a persistent challenge with many employers in the area has been finding qualified talent to meet their needs.

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The area has a wealth of highly-skilled engineers qualified to take up jobs created if fracking goes ahead, according to the head of engineering and computing at Blackpool and The Fylde College.

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Mark Huffer of the Kansas City Area Transit Authority explained that one barrier to transit development is finding qualified transit operators.

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One area with greater potential to impact portfolios is the fate of the qualified dividend tax rate, scheduled to increase from 15% to ordinary income.

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In a seven week social media push, FastStart had collected over 1, 400 applications from qualified candidates, who were either living in the region or ready to relocate to the New Orleans area, before even getting a commitment from Gameloft to relocate.

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However, once qualified, they can continue to receive it if, in future years, they move abroad to another European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland.

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