Sentences with phrase «changes in the economy since»

Despite changes in the economy since the Urban Institute's data were collected, Gregory Acs, one of the authors of the report, says his one - in - six estimate remains reasonable.

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It has been more than five years since credit ratings firm Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. economy from the prized AAA score to AA — and that is unlikely to change in 2017, Standard and Poor's chief sovereign rating officer told CNBC Wednesday.

Since then, a sputtering economy and lackluster inflation have changed Wall Street's perception of when the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee will enact its first hike since taking its funds rate to zero in late Since then, a sputtering economy and lackluster inflation have changed Wall Street's perception of when the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee will enact its first hike since taking its funds rate to zero in late since taking its funds rate to zero in late 2008.

Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, explores the origins of the recent financial crisis, analyzes why we may still be in trouble and examines how the global economy has since changed.

The strong dollar, changes in the economy creating mismatches between workers» skills and the needs of business, and well - intentioned government programs that aid the jobless but also create disincentives to seek training and employment have slowed annual GDP growth to 1.8 percent since 2000 from 3.4 percent the prior two decades.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

But much has changed since Hudson's Bay Co. purchased the U.S. luxury retailer for $ 2.9 billion back in 2013 and announced plans to bring the storied Saks brand to Canada — namely, the cratering of the price of oil, which has taken the Canadian economy down with it.

By picking Powell, a soft - spoken centrist and Fed governor since 2012, Trump would get the combination of a leadership change and the continuity offered by somebody who has been a part of the Yellen - run Fed that has kept the economy and markets steady in recent years.

The oil market's basic fundamentals haven't changed much — apart from some further deceleration in the global economy - since earlier this year when I discussed a range bound energy market.

The Bogor Goals continue to be relevant but more needs to be done in light of changes in the global economy since 1994.

To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.

Before leaving Kano however, Buhari was reported to have on Thursday said current changes to trade and investment policies by the government since he was inaugurated in May 2015 will help the nation to diversify the economy, attract more foreign investments and speed up the country's industrialisation.

The best answer to this latter question, I believe, is no, and it comes in two parts: 1) however much the economy is changing, not all high - school graduates need to be ready for college and career, in whatever way that term is reasonably defined, and 2) practically, since roughly two - thirds of our high schoolers do not graduate college and career ready, today we would deny well over a majority of our students a diploma if we were to impose these more - rigorous requirements on the attainment of a diploma.

Of the slightly more than 11 million jobs created since the Great Recession, all but 100,000 of them have gone to workers with at least some college education.4 We live in a global, technology - dependent, rapidly changing economy in which reading and math skills are not enough to compete for today's jobs.

America has changed since then, but the interstate system was a gift to the nation that continues to serve as the backbone of the world's most powerful economy and as a key element in uniting the various states.

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But buyers beware, as the worst foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression drags down the National economy, the government is making only limited progress this year on proposals for sweeping changes in the home mortgage industry and rates.

A lot of changes have occurred since then (the crazy economy, the combining of our finances, the plummeting of our house value), so I'll take being in the $ 70k range again a good sign.

Unfortunately, we did not eliminate our index hedges after three years, since we continued to be concerned about the economy, but that changed when the new U.S. administration got elected in 2016.

In response to the dramatic changes in our economy and in public policy since last year's annual meeting, CEOs and senior executives of NFCC Agencies came together for a midyear Leadership Summit in March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic prioritieIn response to the dramatic changes in our economy and in public policy since last year's annual meeting, CEOs and senior executives of NFCC Agencies came together for a midyear Leadership Summit in March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic prioritiein our economy and in public policy since last year's annual meeting, CEOs and senior executives of NFCC Agencies came together for a midyear Leadership Summit in March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic prioritiein public policy since last year's annual meeting, CEOs and senior executives of NFCC Agencies came together for a midyear Leadership Summit in March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic prioritiein March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic priorities.

Animals used on farms make up the majority of those raised and used by humans, with an estimated 33 billion land animals alive at any given time.18 This estimate is more exact than any other we will consider, since governments conduct counts of livestock in order to understand and regulate local economies.19 However, this is a somewhat similar undercounting to what we saw for lab animals: fish and shellfish are not counted, and in some areas they are raised for consumption in large numbers.20 The estimates also neglect other animals used for food, such as wild fish or commonly hunted land animals, although these animals may be affected by some of the advocacy aimed at helping farmed animals through promoting diet change.

This used to be a pretty lackluster perk since it was basically 2 - for - 1 companion deals on full - fare premium tickets, but Amex improved it dramatically in 2017 by changing it into a discount on premium economy, business - and first - class tickets.

Bungie has since communicated that it has some big changes to Destiny 2's economy on the way, which will be further explained in a live stream later this week.

In the USA the political right are so against action to combat climate change because it appears to somehow appear to be communist in nature, anti freedom and individual restrictive and hence against the seemingly free market economy that the USA has embraced since the end of the 2nd world war culminating in such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracIn the USA the political right are so against action to combat climate change because it appears to somehow appear to be communist in nature, anti freedom and individual restrictive and hence against the seemingly free market economy that the USA has embraced since the end of the 2nd world war culminating in such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracin nature, anti freedom and individual restrictive and hence against the seemingly free market economy that the USA has embraced since the end of the 2nd world war culminating in such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracin such neurotic / paranoid behaviour as being labelled a left wing conspiracy.

As for the media coverage, there's no need for conspiracy theories, since the explanation by Herman and Chomsky of the political economy of the mass media («Manufacturing Consent») seems to me very relevant in media coverage of climate change, peakoil and SLR.

But lots of signs are pointing to the current extraordinary dry spell, likely exacerbated by heat from human - driven climate change, taking California into conditions unexperienced since long before the state's water - dependent economy exploded during Gov. Jerry Brown's father's terms in office (please read Justin Wm. Moyer's great story on that era in the Washington Post).

That may be changing, well, actually, since global warming is being down played and the economy sucks, it will take longer, but cheap solar panels (nanosolar) and relatively cheap hydrogen fuel cells (Ballard power package handling units in production) with small to medium scale electrolyzers are pretty close even with not so great hydrogen storage options.

-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more than USA today — # 1 priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.

«Over the next 30 years, the nation will see the most significant changes in the ocean and coastal economies since the arrival of industrialization and urbanization.»

The delta13C of the anthropic emissions has been changing with the proportion of coal, oil and natural gas in the energy mix and went from -26 pm (pm = per mil) for the mostly coal and oil economies of the 1950s to -29.5 pm near year 2000 and back to -28.5 pm with the revival of the coal since 2003 - 2005.

Since the dominant assumption in the literature is that reductions greater than 3 - 4 % per year are incompatible with a growing economy (Stern 2006; UK CCC 2008; Hof and Vuuren 2009), they conclude that the only way to prevent catastrophic climate change is by reducing economic activity.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

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The positioning of lawyers as competitors for legal services business has changed since 2000, and Merritt relies on this along with her Ohio data in concluding that her 2010 lawyers were not just facing a tough economy.

Since then, history has witnessed radical changes in society and in the economy, which took Klaus Schwas, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, to write the book, «The fourth Industrial Revolution in 2016».

In a discussion about the company's new Lawline 2.0 initiative, which is making the site's entire archive of over a thousand hours of programming free, Schnurman notes that «Lawline's mission has always been to change the way people learn and since we are transitioning from a service - based economy to a knowledge - based economy, we are helping our audience make that change more seamlessly.»

What's changed since then will be things like additional responsibilities (so still including the ones listed, just more now), fluctuating salaries (in good economical years they go up, bad economies means down), and advances in technology (meaning admins use the software and office machines stated and newer technologies since then too).

However, despite the fact that jobs were added to the economy, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent in October — and has been essentially unchanged since May 2010 — while the number of unemployed persons was also little changed at 14.8 million during the month.