Sentences with phrase «economic council points»

The president of the U.S. - Cuba Trade and Economic Council points to the data he has been able to cobble together that show no exports from the New York companies Chobani, Regeneron, Pfizer and Cayuga Milk Ingredients.

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This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

Ramsey Alwin, vice president for economic security at the National Council on Aging, points to another scam that surfaced last year.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

But up to this point, they've generally been marginalized by a more establishment - friendly group, including National Economic Council chair Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin — and, it seems, Rob Porter.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

The Dow promptly tanked over 500 points, and Cohn's allies began wondering if this would be the final insult sending the director of the National Economic Council to the exit.

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the strategy of empowering the councils to identify regional strategies a «point of inflection» that reverses 40 years of upstate economic decline.

A sticking point in the budget talks is emerging between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers over the control of hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development spending that would benefit western New York as well as the regional economic development councils.

The Regional Councils will now bring together stakeholders in every region of the state to serve as a coordinated point of contact for economic development.

He pointed out that it made no economic sense for the Federal Government to be calculating the country's revenue on the basis of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) official rate of N199 to a dollar while States and Local Councils that are sharing the revenue with the Federal Government run their businesses at the open market rate of over N400 to one dollar.

Ken Pokalsky, with the Business Council, can't point to any specific jobs or new economic development as a result of the tax cap.

Officials at the authority have not explicitly explained how they selected the subsidized projects — Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the Kingsbridge National Ice Center in the Bronx as well as Empire Outlets and Lighthouse Point on Staten Island — except to say that state - created Regional Economic Development Councils and local legislators, in theory, have some influence.

Others point to Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO and a co-chair of Cuomo's Regional Economic Development Council.

Although the former president of Harvard University and current director of the National Economic Council may have been right on a few details, he was wrong on his major point.

A new report released by the Policy and Economic Research Council (PERC) in May 2011 revealed that less than 1 % of credit reports actually have an error that, if corrected, would improve credit scores more than 25 points.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

These points are most powerfully driven home by Harvard economist Martin Weitzman (a good summary of his work on this topic and its policy implications can be found in pages 20 - 25 the The Costs of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change from the White House Council of Economic Advisors) and financial risk management expert Bob Litterman.

Now, ex-Goldman executives populate the top echelons of the Trump administration and two of them, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin, are slated to be the point men on the Dodd - Frank rollback.