Job Market
According to the Virgin Islands' Department of Labor, the size of the local workforce is almost 50,000 people. In 2009, it was reported that the unemployment rate was 7.8%. Hovensa is also a large-scale employer after the government of the Virgin Islands.
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“Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job 38:11.
God speaking to Job of his laying of his “foundations of the earth.”
“I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruit, but dollars; who loves not the beauty of his fruits, whose fruits are not ripe for him till they are turned to dollars. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)