Sentences with phrase «before corporate profits»

You're standing with the experts, activists, and caregivers who believe that the wellbeing of children should come before corporate profits.

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In fact corporate profits are a recognized long leading indicator, which means they usually peak at least a year before the economy as a whole.

Second, corporate profits are still high by historical standards, so businesses still have a lot of room to absorb wage increases before they would have to raise prices.

«If they were at the same 21 percent share of corporate profits as they had averaged in the two decades before these cuts, the federal government would have about $ 25 billion more in corporate tax revenues annually.

With corporate taxes being cut to 21 % from 35 %, corporate profit margins before the tax relief already near record highs, and the window open to tax - efficiently repatriate foreign earnings, one would logically conclude that corporations should be in robust financial health.

As chairwoman of a cross-party parliamentary group on international corporate responsibility, I frequently meet businesses whose ethos is «people before profit», who treat their staff properly and mitigate against their social and environmental impact, particularly in the developing world.

«I've spent 37 years in this district defending working people from predatory corporate practices, and now, I want to go to Congress to make sure that no insurance company or pharmaceutical manufacturer ever puts their profit margins before a person's life.

«The NCTQ report is intended to support a specific political agenda that seeks to label teacher preparation and the teaching profession as failed enterprises that should be taken over by the corporate, for - profit sector of our society,» three faculty members from Wisconsin universities wrote in an op - ed that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel shortly before the report was released.

Gains and losses You may generate capital gains on a corporate bond if you sell it at a profit before it matures.

Corporate profits have commanded this large a share of national income only twice before: in 1929 and 2006.

Another ingredient is to avoid the curve of command that runs loosely from invention, innovation, early adoption, prototyping, etc etc through to getting lawyer protection of ideas, patents, grants, finance committees to allocate fund and pick winners, to professional corporate types to strip the profits away before moving on with a big bonus to wreck another venture.

Even before the price of oil crashed, revenue generated from Alberta's shrunken taxes on personal income and corporate profits covered only about 40 per cent of the cost of public services, compared to about 60 per cent in other provinces.