All Posts from June, 2013
Investing in the American workforce of the future
Posted: June 11, 2013 by Ken Cohen
On Friday, ExxonMobil announced a $500,000 grant to underwrite a technology job-training program in the greater Houston area that will help develop the workers to staff a rapidly expanding petrochemical industry. This comes just a few months after prospects for a “major workforce shortage” were discussed at the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers annual meeting.
Stop the presses! Big Oil pays the Biggest Taxes!
Posted: June 7, 2013 by Ken Cohen
Regular readers of this blog know that ExxonMobil and other energy industry companies pay a lot in taxes. But not everybody understands this basic point, particularly politicians who want to target us with even higher levies. So it was nice to see growing recognition of the tax burden shouldered by the oil and gas industry in The New York Times recently.
