Sentences with phrase «cost much labor»

If they cost much labor, all the better.

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Tunnels are expensive, conspicuous, and time - consuming; El Chapo's tunnel may have cost as much as $ 50 million in labor, building material, and bribes.

The reflexive answer to how much plastic bags should cost is to add the cost of materials and labor in making them, but we know that answer is insufficient.

Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

We all know labor costs are much lower in China and other developing nations, but protections for workers were also modest.

Furthermore, it contributes to higher labor costs, by as much as $ 3.2 billion.

On its website, the company breaks down how much it costs to make all of its clothes and accessories (labor, materials, transporting the apparel, and duties).

The amount you charge per labor hour, any prices you pass along to customers, cost increases you assume, the rate of inflation, and how much your competition charges should be numbers you know off the top of your head.

However, to calculate the flat fee, the shops first determine how much a site will cost them to produce in hourly labor.

Builders say they can't lower prices much or build cheaper starter homes because of the high costs of land, labor and materials.

MH: The problem of inadequate consumer demand to fuel an economic recovery does not lie with the cost of labor so much as with the fact that it is now normal for families to pay a quarter or even a third of their income for debt service.

Labor experts say the arrangement, a mash - up of sorts between an Uber - style gig economy and traditional employment arrangements, raises a number of questions related to employees having to shoulder much of the risk, cost and liability associated with deliveries.

The producer - price index, reflecting how much firms pay for everything from paper to trucks, rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 % from November, led by a jump in energy costs, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

The impact will be much broader, as soaring transport prices encourage higher - cost local production to replace sourcing from cheap labor markets halfway around the world.

Automation is forecast to raise productivity by as much as 30 percent in many industries, and cut labor costs by at least 18 percent in the coming decade, according to recent research from The Boston Consulting Group.

When a person working that much can't pay for basic necessities without a government bailout, then there is indeed a problem with the cohesion of society, in that a group of employers gets the entire society to underwrite their labor costs via government «handouts.»

That's because the proper equipment and supply item can help foodservice operators maximize their use of capital by managing those pesky little variables that can often make or break their businesses, such as proper labor, food cost, food safety and much more.

For example, if you buy frozen muffins you're in the 55 - 60 cent range; if you purchase ingredients and make muffins it's much less — maybe a third of the cost — and then you have that money available to pay labor.

I also completely agree with you that that HHFKA was underfunded from the get - go, which makes serving healthier food that much harder for FSDs due to increased food costs and labor, as well as the possibility of decreased participation due to changes in the food.

So, you've sat down with your doctor to discuss a discount on labor and delivery services and you've checked into how much each service costs.

With that said, please understand that as much as it is a labor of love, I have a family of my own to support, and as long I can do so without compromising the integrity of the information I share or the quality of your experience, I see no problem in recouping some of the costs of my time and financial investment put into this site through affiliate commissions.

Labor costs often amount to as much as half of the budget for a school nutrition department, but salary for cafeteria workers varies greatly, with some districts paying close to minimum wage for entry level workers, while others may pay closer to $ 15 - 20 per hour even for those workers still at first step.

As for the sporks, I'm not sure it's a liability issue so much as a cost issue — I assume that the disposable spork is cheaper than the labor needed to wash real silverware, and cheaper even than a disposable knife and fork.

Ms. Ferreras nonetheless acknowledged «many uncertainties» in the plan, including, most notably, unresolved labor contracts with nearly every one of the city's municipal labor unions, which could cost the city as much as $ 7 billion to settle, according to some estimates.

The bottom line is that the MTA is under severe constraints: It's being crushed by debt and labor costs, but it can't do much to reduce either one.

Ironically, a deal to secure the Democratic majority may have cost Mr. Liu the election: he lost much of his coveted labor backing, like the Working Families Party, after Mr. Avella's IDC agreed this Spring to govern with the Democratic conference next year.

It's hard to determine how much my dress costs, since I don't count my own labor costs.

If you post a large chat infrastructure internally, the labor cost alone will be much larger than Userplane's costs.

It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost as much as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering inexpensive online degrees with low labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.

Allegretto and Mishel calculate the value of the pension benefits that teachers earn in a given year based on how much their employers contributed to their retirement plans in that year, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) survey.

From a business perspective, this helps companies become much leaner, removing redundancies from their processes and lowering labor costs simultaneously.

Martha Keating, Labor Relations Consultant for the Rochester Teachers Association, says a new scoring system is in place where teachers can accumulate up to 100 points, «Never before has there been a prescribed rating that the observation evaluation counts this much and the state tests count this much and if there was local testing it would cost this much, but the law imposed that on all of the districts in NY State.»

The Evidenced Based Model determines per - pupil expenditures by identifying how much research - based «best practices» cost, given a state's overall and regional labor market and other cost factors.

It costs these companies thousands of dollars or much more to publish a book with a large labor force under massive bureaucracies.

The claims payment for normal labor and delivery is often much larger than the policy costs for a year.

While generic parts may be as much as 38 % cheaper to buy, they could cost you more in terms of labor.

As the Vanguard researchers wrote: «An investor who had simply redirected his or her portfolio's income would have achieved most of the risk - control benefits of more labor - and transaction - intensive rebalancing strategies at a much lower cost.»

Some astute investors (such as Hussman and GMO) have argued in essence that the combination of record government deficit spending and unemployment levels has propped up corporate revenues while lowering labor costs, thereby boosting corporate profit margins by as much as 70 percent above historical averages.

We used to make wooden cat shelters which were not labor or cost effective... but the totes are so much quicker & easier!

As the more designed multiples of Fairey and the repetition of Cost have given much ground to the highly labor intensive one - offs with a story today, you can see that this narrative style may have been set into motion by people like Swoon and Elbow - Toe in the intervening wave.

New coal plants cost three to four times as much as they did three years ago, due to the embedded cost of petroleum and natural gas in plant construction, materials and labor.

Shackelford said business has been brisk, in large part because of federal programs that substantially cut homeowner's costs through tax credits and other initiatives, like the National Home Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American homes.

It takes time, $ $ $, labor, attention and a lot of paper work to do anything, so there is a cost of directing that much money out of other projects.

Much of that economic output is a result of American and European companies shifting manufacturing to places where labor costs are lower.

That's saying a lot when you look at an industry known for its harsh labor practices and unhealthy cost - cutting; purchasing pieces that are considered Fair Trade proves that people and places mean as much as (or more than) the company's bottom line.

The company claims that its system can reduce the time needed for solar rooftop installation by more than half, greatly reducing costs (labor costs alone are about 30 % of the total cost of a solar rooftop system — how much you save depends on local labor costs).

@John Newlands 16April 7.49 am Dollar costing is a proxy for material inputs Not really, 3kW of wind capacity has a similar cost to 1kW of nuclear, but uses much more steel and concrete but a lot less highly skilled labor and capital intensive manufacturing.

While your average gallon - sized milk jug hasn't changed much in decades, it's about to undergo a significant change destined to cut fuel, labor, and carbon costs all at the same time.

The panels themselves only account for about 20 percent of the cost, but if the solar panels had a much greater energy output, there could be fewer of them generating the same amount of energy, meaning less land required and fewer labor hours.

Although focussed on the UK, there is much surprising information, the first being that a major cost is the value of time that employed scientists spend reading the stuff (the time of the unemployed and retired, but Eli repeats himself, having lesser value), # 34bn, other free labor that has a real cost is # 1.9 bn for unpaid peer reviews.