Sentences with phrase «american paid cents»

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Now, according to sources familiar with the latest developments, the U.S. has offered to replace the 50 - per - cent requirement with another idea designed to encourage American manufacturing: a formula that credits car companies for paying more than $ 15 per hour.

He confirmed that the U.S. had been willing to drop its demand that 50 per cent of every car consist of American parts, in exchange for a new system that credits parts - makers when they pay more than $ 15 an hour.

The central bank obediently issued GKOs (government treasury bills) paying interest rates higher than 100 per cent annually, subsequently scaled back to a more «Latin American - type» level of about 25 percent.

«I think the American people are willing to pay a cent - and - a-half more for a 6 - pack of beer to have an aluminum and steel industry,» he said on CBS News's Face the Nation.

Lengel's account of Barnum acquiring (for $ 1000) and then parading elderly African - American Joice Heth around the East Coast as «the 161 - year - old slave mammy» to George Washington is equally disturbing and gripping; put on display 14 hours a day for a paying public, Heth soon died, and Barnum held a public autopsy - charging 50 cents a head.»

I really do hate war and wish that not a cent of my taxes were used to buy or make weapons or fund troops who mass murder family's in foreign countries, but I don't have much choice do I because it's part of our national defense that I do appreciate, so I pay my damn taxes like real American's should.

For women of color the gap is larger, with African - American women making 64 cents and Latinas just 54 cents for every dollar paid to men.

Nationally, African - American women were paid 63 cents for every dollar white men earned and 54 cents for Hispanic women.

But Americans are willing to pay $ 1 more per pound for U.S. organic broccoli than that from China and Mexico and up to 32 cents more per pound than that grown in Canada.

Jun 30, 2016 — In June 1976 Americans were gearing up to celebrate the Bicentennial and pick a new President, singing along to the number one song on the radio, Silly Love Songs and paying just 59 cents for a gallon of gas.

According to data from Greenwich Associates presented in testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services (Harold Bradley of American Century Management, March 12, 2003), mutual funds pay an average of between 5.1 and 5.5 cents per share in commissions to make securities transactions - a rate that has not changed significantly in the past decade.

When you Pay With Points for flights through American Express Travel, points are worth one cent each.

I value most airline miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards & American Express Membership Rewards points at around 1 cent, so I don't mind paying 0.79 cents per mile or point.

Around 39 per cent of Canadians are clueless about the benefits of paying more than the minimum balance, whereas 25 per cent of Americans are uncertain.

I paid for these with American Express Membership Rewards with 2 cent per point uplift thanks to a 50 % rebate for premium cabin flights when paying with Membership Rewards for Business Platinum cardholders.

By offering 50 % of points back, American Express increased the value of their Membership Rewards ® points to 2 cents per point when using the Pay with Points option on your select airline.

I also have a decent stash of Thank You Points and am going to remain an American Airlines flyer for a while, so I'll be able to use points at the rate of 1.6 cents toward my paid flights (you can tell I don't agree with the Devil's Advocate's take on TYPs).

Travelers who use the Pay with Points feature via American Express Travel can redeem Membership Rewards points at a rate of one cent each.

When you book through the American Express travel website and choose the Pay with Points option, you'll get a straight 1 - cent - per - dollar redemption rate.

It is also possible to redeem Membership Rewards points at a rate of one cent each toward travel on any airline when using the Pay with Points feature on American Express Travel.

To fly American to Savannah from the Northeast in the winter, you'd pay $ 275 to $ 400 out of pocket roundtrip, so you're getting 1.8 to 2.6 cents per point.

The Enhanced Business Platinum ® Card from American Express OPEN offered a lot of value for many people with its Pay With Points benefit allowing members to redeem Membership Rewards for certain airlines at 2 cents per point by utilizing a 50 % automatic rebate.

Just like my posts on whether or not it's worthwhile to buy American Airlines miles at 2 cents a mile and whether it's worth it to pay half a cent for Hilton points, the answer to this one once again be.

If you value AAdvantage miles at 1.56 cents each, you'd have to spend $ 3,206 on this American Airlines Citi card annually to justify paying the annual fee, which is not a lot of spending.

One of the least valuable ways to redeem American Express Membership Rewards points is to pay for charges, which only offers 0.6 cents per point in value.

If you have an American Express Business Platinum card, you can use Amex Pay With Points on your selected airline in economy for 1 cent per point and receive a 50 % rebate (making it a «2 cents — but not really 2 cents — per point» value).

American Express allows you to use points to pay off your credit card bill at a rate of 1 cent per point.

You will pay $ 4,786.88 for 250,000 miles (includes 100,000 bonus miles) This equates to about 1.91 cents / mile — the cheapest American Airlines has ever sold the miles.

We already know that American is prepared to sell AAdvantage Miles at under 2.0 cents / mile so, unless you have a pressing need for miles, why pay more than that?

Delta has another program, Pay with Miles, which allows members who hold Gold, Platinum, or Reserve Delta American Express credit cards, a special redemption option at a value of one cent per mile toward ticket purchases.

For example, if you booked the same DFW to CZM flight with 25,000 American Airline miles and paid the fees, you'd be spending 10,000 more miles and redeeming at 2.5 cents per point, almost 2 cents less per point than with Avios.

If you want to use an American Airlines voluntary denied boarding voucher to pay for part of your airfare, you can't pay for the rest by redeeming Citi ThankYou points for 1.6 cents each.

With the jump from 1.25 cents per point to 1.6 cents per point value, I easily pay off the remainder of the annual fee with 1 American Airlines booking each year.

To contrast, let's say you're using a Gold Delta SkyMiles Credit Card from American Express and you're getting 1 mile per $ 1 on all purchases except Delta ones (2X per $ 1), and you redeem those miles at a rate of 1 cent per mile with Delta's Pay With Miles feature, you have to think, «Why would I do that when I could be getting more than double in value from those Arrival miles?»

Meanwhile, Citibank's transferrable points are more valuable if you have the Prestige card because you can also use those points to straight - up buy paid American Airlines tickets at 1.6 cents apiece.

But since these valuations aren't precise I won't actually pay 1.6 cents for an American mile.

But you'd need to pay me 2 cents per American AAdvantage mile for me to sell them, and more than that if I was just about to redeem them for a family trip.

The result of these policies in Germany, businesses and families now pay the second highest electricity price in Europe, after Denmark: 45 cents per kilowatt - hour — five times what Americans pay for coal and gas - fueled electricity and nearly three times what they pay in California, Connecticut and New York.

Never mind, they add, that the Keystone pipeline has experienced a dozen leaks since it opened in June 2010, that Keystone XL proponents are overpromising on the number of jobs for Americans and that some economists claim Midwesterners will pay 10 cents to 20 cents more per gallon of gas if the proposed pipeline is built.

What's more, the pay gap is even greater for women of color — African - American women earn 64 cents and Hispanic women earn 56 cents to each white man's dollar.